Ignore .git folders as project resource?

Ignition
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Hi all!

Trying to get all of our projects on the same page, and our shared scripts seemed like a good place to start. I created a git repository in C:\Program Files\Inductive Automation\Ignition\data\projects\project name\ignition\script-python, but the designer/gateway throws an error about the .git folder that is created there. Is there anyway to ignore “.git”? I know that the exposure of those folders was meant for version control. Thanks.


IllegalArgumentException: com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.project.resource.NameInvalidException: Name '.git' is invalid
	caused by NameInvalidException: Name '.git' is invalid

Ignition v8.0.4 (b2019091612)
Java: Azul Systems, Inc. 11.0.4
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You should be putting it higher up, in the data/projects folder.

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At the moment I dont want to do the whole project though, I’d like to just handle the scripts.

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You’ll have to handle this with .gitignore or something right now, then.

Right now part of the the project system thinks .git is a folder resource and another is having a fit over the name.

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Ignition 8.0.10
@Kevin.Herron

I try to use git with one git repository for one project Ignition.
Instead of a git repository for the whole ignition projects folder.
I don’t wan’t to go deeper like a repo for script only, but for me it make sense that 1 Ignition projet = 1 git repository.

/data/project/global/.git (.git is the directory)
/data/project/global/.gitgnore
/data/project/myProj1/.git
/data/project/myProj2/.git
…

This works fine, except 2 remarks:

  1. when .git folder content change, Ignition Client receive an update message (It must be because anything change in Ignition gateway projects/myProj folder)
  2. when I restore a project from the gateway .git folder is deleted …

If possible, it would be very usefull that Ignition project management system ignore .git folder and .gitignore files ! in the project/myProject folders

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Nightly Changelog: 8.1.15-b2022020216

Platform
5375: Allow an Ignition project to be used as a Git repo (ignore .git folder)

Now automatically excluding .git, .hg, and .svn folders when scanning project files for changes.

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Coming back to this with the same issues here, just a different . folder!

com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.project.resource.NameInvalidException: Name '.jython_cache' is invalid

Is there any reason that the feature change couldn't just be to either ignore all invalid project resource names or ignore all dot folders/files?