Ignoring Files

A package can exclude specific files within its src directory from both deployment and cleaning, using glob patterns matched against each file’s path relative to the package root.

[packages.nvim]
src = "dotfiles/nvim"
dest = "~/.config/nvim/"
ignore = ["*.log", "cache/*", ".DS_Store"]

• Patterns are matched with glob-match semantics (*, **, ?, [...], etc.) against the path relative to the package’s src — not against absolute paths.
• A matched file is skipped entirely during deploy/update: it isn’t copied, and if it already exists at the destination it isn’t removed by clean mode either — ignore means “hands off,” not “delete this.”
• ignore only applies to directory packages (it has no effect on a package whose src is a single file).

This is separate from your top-level .gitignore (which controls what git tracks in the repository) — ignore controls what DotR itself touches at deploy time.