How to Git-Ignore Symlinks on a Magento Module installed by composer

Question

I install modules using composer.phar.

This creates symlinks files in publichtml/app/code/community (for example) with a target to vendor/themodule....

In my .gitignore I excluded the vendor directory - but the links would of course still end up in the git.

Is there an easy way to automically exclude those links? (other than adding everything manually to the .gitignore)

I have to say that I have some require-dev modules which should not end up on the final server - so having those links there would be at least not so nice.

Answer 1

The best I came up with was running this after an composer install/update

$ find * -type l -not -exec grep -q "^{}$" .gitignore \; -print >> .gitignore

The command should be run in the git root directory. It adds all symlinks to the .gitignore file that aren't in there already.

Answer 2

This method only adds untracked symlinks so can be repeated without adding duplicate entries, symlinks that are in submodules or are otherwise already ignored, or intentionally tracked symlinks.

for f in $(git status --porcelain | grep '^??' | sed 's/^?? //'); do
    test -L "$f" && echo $f >> .gitignore;
    test -d "$f" && echo $f\* >> .gitignore;
done

Answer 3

Nowadays there is an option for this in the composer installer. Just set extra.auto-add-files-to-gitignore https://github.com/magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer/blob/master/README.md#auto-add-files-to-gitignore

Answer 4

The combined solution of @ColinM and @Vinai that works for me

for f in $(git status --porcelain | grep '^??' | sed 's/^?? //'); do
    if test -L "$f"
    then
        test -L "$f" && echo $f >> .gitignore;
    elif test -d "$f"
    then
        find ${f%/} -type l -not -exec grep -q "^{}$" .gitignore \; -print >> .gitignore
    fi
done