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Exclude data from build/extract
Suggested in the discussion in #26, the ability to exclude certain data from build or extract.
We now have these variations in Gitify:
Gitify build/extract to build/extract everything
Gitify build/extract snippets to only build/extract snippets
Gitify build/extract snippets chunks templates ... to build/extract a selection of the data.
The proposal is to add an extra syntax to exclude certain data. This only really makes sense with the build/extract everything.
Something like Gitify build -snippets to build everything except snippets - although that syntax likely wont work because of what syntax is and isn't supported with Symfony2 Console http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/introduction.html#using-command-arguments
This syntax proposed by @Alroniks looks most promising:
gitify build --exclude snippets chunks template
gitify build --only snippets chunks
where the --only flag is the current behaviour (so a bit redundant), and --exclude would change the meaning of the data partitions passed as argument.
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It would be really useful to somehow have this as an option in the .gitify file. For example, we have sites that we would want to transfer everything live > dev, but exclude content & tv values dev > live. Being able to specify what to build as well as what to extract in .gitify would solve this.
My current workaround is to gitignore the _data folders we don't want to sync dev > live but to transfer them manually when doing a live > dev build.
I need this soooo much! :D For larger projects it absolutly makes sense to exclude the content sometimes, because it speeds up the deployment soooooo much if you have 300k resources.
