No Respect for `.gitignore`

[Gigaclank]

When deploying files mike does not respect the .gitignore file should it exist.

I have a use where I have large files (> 1gb) that I do not want to commit to my git repo but am willing to accept that a large docker image will hold these instead. Therefore when mike is commiting to the pages branch it is blindly adding the files into the commit, causing long push times / refused pushes.

I reccomend that the walk_real_files function impliments this ability to ignore these files.

[jimporter]

This is already possible with the exclude_docs setting in MkDocs. That's probably a better way to go about setting up ignores anyway, since it affects the MkDocs build process and thus ensures that the version that ends up in gh-pages for archival is the "canonical" form of your generated docs.

[Gigaclank]

@jimporter the exclude_docs functionality is not what I need in this use case as I still require the large >1gb files in my docs however I do not want them to be stored in the git repo. But I’m now not sure that even the .gitignore is going to work because I. Am building a docker image from
The versioned docs. I may have to rethink my approach on hosting the docs.

[jimporter]

@Gigaclank In that case, you might be better off putting the large files somewhere else or just adding them to the Docker image separately, and then within your docs providing an absolute URL to them. That way, the docs are the same regardless of whether they're available from the Docker image, the gh-pages branch, or even a downloadable tarball.