This is a .NET port of gitignore-parser for node.js by Ger Hobbelt

A simple yet complete .gitignore parser for .NET.

Installation

Install-Package GitignoreParserNet -Version 0.2.0.13

Features

Supports all features listed in the GIT SCM gitignore manpage:

• handles the ** wildcard anywhere

  • in both the usual usage, e.g. foo/**/bar, and also in complexes such as yo/**la/bin
  • can be used multiple times in a single pattern, e.g. foo/**/rec**on

• handles the * wildcard

• handles the ? wildcard

• handles [a-z] style character ranges

• understands !-prefixed negated patterns

• understands \#, \[, \\, etc. filename escapes, thus handles patterns like \#*# correctly (hint: this is NOT a comment line!)

• deals with any sequence of positive and negative patterns, like this one from the .gitignore manpage:

  # exclude everything except directory foo/bar
  /*
  !/foo
  /foo/*
  !/foo/bar

• handles any empty lines and # comment lines you feed it

• we're filename agnostic: the ".gitignore file" does not have to be named .gitignore but can be named anything: this parser accepts .gitignore-formatted content from anywhere: you load the file, we do the parsing, you feed our Accepts() or Denies() APIs any filenames / paths you want filtered and we'll tell you if it's a go or a no go.

• extra: an additional API is available for those of you who wish to have the complete and utter .gitignore experience: use our Inspects(path) API to know whether the given gitignore filter set did actively filter the given file or did simple allow it to pass through.

  Read as: if the .gitignore has a pattern which matches the given file/path, then we will return true, otherwise we return false.

  Use this in directory trees where you have multiple .gitignore files in nested directories and are implementing tooling with git-like .gitignore behaviour.

Usage

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    const string gitignorePath = @"D:\path\to\.gitignore";

    var (accepted, denied) = GitignoreParser.Parse(gitignorePath: gitignorePath, ignoreGitDirectory: true);

    foreach (string file in accepted)
        Console.WriteLine(file);
}

Notes

• As the .gitignore spec differentiates between patterns such as foo and foo/, where the latter only matches any directory named foo, you MUST pass the is-this-a-file-or-a-directory info to us when you invoke any of our Accepts(), Denies() and Inspects() APIs by making sure directory paths have a trailing /.

License

Apache 2, see LICENSE.md.