Not triggering on hidden (dotfile) files

[andersevenrud]

Hi,

I'm having some issues with chokidar and listening with a glob-pattern. It seems that nothing happens when I manipulate files inside directories with a leading dot (aka. hidden in NIX). Example: /data/storage/** (any glob-pattern seems to fail).

However, when I just listen on /data/storage it seems to trigger exactly how I want.

Since I'm using this behind an application with dynamic/configurable paths (in which case glob patterns is really handy) this is bit of a problem.

Is this a bug, or am I simply using wrong pattern? I've tried lots of stuff, but simply can't get it to work.

An example of a path that fails under my conditions: /data/storage/anders/.something/here

Node v7.4.0
Arch Linux

[es128]

Globs ignore dotfiles by default as a feature. There is an option in micromatch to change that, but unfortunately it's not exposed through chokidar.

You could watch /data/storage as a directory instead of a glob, and then create a function for the ignored option that does the filtering you want (potentially using micromatch with the dot: true option in order to keep using the same glob patterns).

[andersevenrud]

That's what I though.

Thanks :)

[feifeipan]

Thanks.

ignored: mm.makeRe("node_modules|.DS_Store|pom.xml",{dot:true})