How to ignore files when building channel?

Question

I have my Roku channel checked into github and thus have a .git folder in my working directory. The .git folder is getting packaged with the channel when I build (as well as other mac os files such as .DS_Store).  How do I ignore these files when I build using make?

RokuChris · Answer

The easiest way is probably to add an --exclude directive to your zip command

danb · Answer

There is nothing I can add to the Makefile to ignore files or directories?

RokuMarkn · Answer

If you're using app.mk, the comment at the beginning of the file describes how to add exclude parameters to the zip command.


# to exclude certain files from being added to the zipfile during packaging
# include a line like this:ZIP_EXCLUDE= -x keys\*
# that will exclude any file who's name begins with 'keys'
# to exclude using more than one pattern use additional '-x <pattern>' arguments
# ZIP_EXCLUDE= -x \*.pkg -x storeassets\*
#

danb · Answer

Thanks!  Worked great.

RokuJoel · Answer

Good things to exclude include .zip files, .PSD files, .DS_Store files, .svn files and folders, thumbs.db files etc. - Joel

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