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It would be nice if it would have a .gitignore like ignore file. Or does it?

It tries to ignore common junk files, and it can be configured to ignore things when invoking it with `--glob !PATTERN`, but there isn't anything like a `.gitignore` file at the moment.

Were you thinking of a `.gitignore` file that would be global? Like `~/.config/imdl/ignore`, or on a per-torrent basis?

I'd like to add a config in the future, and adding files to ignore to the config could be useful.

I was thinking on a per torrent basis. The .gitignore format is well known and there are a lot of goot templates on github et al, so using them would be a very convenient way to share github managed directories via your tool.

That's a good idea. There's already a `--glob` option, which allows selecting what to include with globs. It's the inverse of `.gitignore`, so `--glob foo` includes foo, and `--glob !foo` ignores foo.

I think that the glob library I'm using implements the same syntax as `.gitignore`, so it would be easy to add an `--ignore-file PATH` option.

I opened an issue to track this: https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/378

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