How exclude specific folders to update on the server with rsync pipeline

[Marcos Almeida]

Hello,

I am using rsync pipeline to deploy to my server, but it happens that essential information like the content is being replaced by the dummy content I have in my local.

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pipelines:

branches:

main:

- step:

name: Deploy to production

deployment: production

script:

- pipe: atlassian/rsync-deploy:0.8.1

variables:

USER: $USER

SERVER: $SERVER

REMOTE_PATH: $REMOTE_PATH

LOCAL_PATH: "${BITBUCKET_CLONE_DIR}/"

EXCLUDES: ".gitignore"

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Also I realised the obvious that if I include the content folders in my .gitignore, I would remove them totally from my server. Which is not intended?

Is there a way to the pipeline ignore updating specific folders, as i want to keep them untouched on my server? The content folder on my root, for example.

This, of course, respecting what I have in my .gitignore

Thanks

[Hariharan Iyer · Accepted solution]

Hi @Marcos Almeida ,

You can use the EXTRA_ARGS parameter to pass in the "filter" and/or "exclude" parameter to rsync. For example

script:
  - pipe: atlassian/rsync-deploy:0.12.0
    variables:
      USER: 'ec2-user'
      SERVER: '127.0.0.1'
      REMOTE_PATH: '/var/www/build/'
      LOCAL_PATH: 'build'
      DEBUG: 'true'
      EXTRA_ARGS:
        - "--filter=P assets/css" # double quotes here are necessary
        - "--exclude=*.txt"

Hope that helps! 

[Hariharan Iyer]

Also, if you want the contents of .gitignore to be ignored, you will have to use 

--exclude-from=.gitignore

in the EXTRA_ARGS section.

[Marcos Almeida]

Hey @Hariharan Iyer 

Thanks a lot for the fast answer.

It drives me to another question: Filter or exclude flags would drive me to the same, not touching my folders on the server?

Would it look like this?

EXTRA_ARGS:
        - "--filter=P content" 
        --exclude-from=.gitignore

[Hariharan Iyer]

Yes, using excludes (or exclude-from) in rsync implies that files which match those patterns will not be sync'ed, so the versions on your server should not be affected. You can learn more about how/when to use the various options here - https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/rsync.1.html#filter%20rules

[Marcos Almeida]

Perfect! Thanks a lot!