Exclude directories from processing

[ghost]

Hello,

What:
It would be nice if I could tell Paket to ignore specific directories from processing (paket install).

Why:
We added git submodules to our repository and some (sub) projects use Paket as well. During paket install it detects ALL paket.reference files and replaces the DLL reference paths accordingly.

Example:

     <When Condition="$(TargetFrameworkIdentifier) == '.NETFramework' And ($(TargetFrameworkVersion) == 'v4.0')">
       <ItemGroup>
         <Reference Include="System.Reactive.Core">
-          <HintPath>..\..\..\..\packages\Rx-Core\lib\net40\System.Reactive.Core.dll</HintPath>
+          <HintPath>..\..\..\..\..\..\packages\Rx-Core\lib\net40\System.Reactive.Core.dll</HintPath>^M
           <Private>True</Private>
           <Paket>True</Paket>
         </Reference>

The sub modules should not use the root/packages directory. The directory root/submodule path/packages makes much more sense. The root/paket.dependencies and root/paket.lock shouldn't apply sub modules dependencies.

Proposal:

a.)
Add a paket.ignore file that contains directory names to ignore.

+ <root>
|-+ submodules
  |-- paket.ignore
  |-+ submodule-1
    |-- .git
  |-+ submodule-2
    |-- .git

File content of paket.ignore (maybe regex?):

submodule-1
submodule-1

b.)
Paket recognises the sub directory's paket.lock + paket.dependencies files and processes the sub folder independently.

Greetings,
Daniel

[agross]

Ad a): An empty file would be OK as well to exclude everything below the directory paket.ignore is in.

[ghost]

@agross: if the paket.ignore file supports regular expressions as pattern, you could just add .* as file content.

[forki]

I like the idea of just stopping if we find another paket.dependencies file. This will help here and avoids lots of confusion.

[ghost]

Cool! Thanks!