Add ignore pattern in upload/downloadDir method.

I want ignore some files when using uploadDir and downloadDir method.

e.g.:

client.uploadDir(buildLocal, buildRemote, '.git/**'); // ignore files in .git directory

[theophilusx]

That seems like a reasonable requirement. It isn’t possible at present, but happy to take it on board as a feature enhancement. Will look at implementation when I get time. Pull requests are welcome.

[theophilusx]

I’m not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do (maybe a language issue?). The filter is used to exclude things it matches. Your filter matches the files in idls, so there are no files to download from that directory. The filter is not just applied to the root directory. It is applied to all the entries in every directory (downloadDir recurses into all sub-directories). It looks like idls was ignored because all the files in that directory match your filter, so no files were downloaded from that directory.

What version of ssh2-sftp-cleint are you using? What version of node are you using? What platform is the client running on?

The filter is a regular expression - it can be as sophisticated or as simple as you want. Your filter is very simple and it is matching all files or directories with ‘.thrift’ in the name. If you want some files with thrift in the name, you need to refine your regexp filter.