Updated feature for notify ignore

gitwatch.sh

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ shelp() {
   echo ""
   echo "Usage:"
   echo "${0##*/} [-s <secs>] [-d <fmt>] [-r <remote> [-b <branch>]]"
-  echo "          [-m <msg>] [-l|-L <lines>] [-M] <target>"
+  echo "          [-m <msg>] [-l|-L <lines>] [-x <pattern>] [-M] <target>"
   echo ""
   echo "Where <target> is the file or folder which should be watched. The target needs"
   echo "to be in a Git repository, or in the case of a folder, it may also be the top"
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ shelp() {
   echo "                  (useful when using inotify-win, e.g. -e modify,delete,move)"
   echo "                  (currently ignored on Mac, which only uses default values)"
   echo " -M               Prevent commits when there is an ongoing merge in the repo"
+  echo " -x <pattern>     Pattern to exclude from inotifywait"
   echo ""
   echo "As indicated, several conditions are only checked once at launch of the"
   echo "script. You can make changes to the repo state and configurations even while"
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ is_merging () {
 
 ###############################################################################
 
-while getopts b:d:h:g:L:l:m:p:r:s:e:M option; do # Process command line options
+while getopts b:d:h:g:L:l:m:p:r:s:e:x:M option; do # Process command line options
   case "${option}" in
     b) BRANCH=${OPTARG} ;;
     d) DATE_FMT=${OPTARG} ;;
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ while getopts b:d:h:g:L:l:m:p:r:s:e:M option; do # Process command line options
     M) SKIP_IF_MERGING=1 ;;
     p | r) REMOTE=${OPTARG} ;;
     s) SLEEP_TIME=${OPTARG} ;;
+    x) EXCLUDE_PATTERN=${OPTARG} ;;
     e) EVENTS=${OPTARG} ;;
     *)
       stderr "Error: Option '${option}' does not exist."
@@ -221,12 +223,19 @@ fi
 if [ -d "$1" ]; then # if the target is a directory
 
   TARGETDIR=$(sed -e "s/\/*$//" <<< "$IN") # dir to CD into before using git commands: trim trailing slash, if any
+
+  if [ -z $EXCLUDE_PATTERN ]; then
+     EXCLUDE_OPTS="'(\.git/|\.git$)'"
+  else
+     EXCLUDE_OPTS="'(\.git/|\.git$|$EXCLUDE_PATTERN)'"
+  fi
+
   # construct inotifywait-commandline
   if [ "$(uname)" != "Darwin" ]; then
-    INW_ARGS=("-qmr" "-e" "$EVENTS" "--exclude" "'(\.git/|\.git$)'" "\"$TARGETDIR\"")
+    INW_ARGS=("-qmr" "-e" "$EVENTS" "--exclude" $EXCLUDE_OPTS "\"$TARGETDIR\"")
   else
     # still need to fix EVENTS since it wants them listed one-by-one
-    INW_ARGS=("--recursive" "$EVENTS" "-E" "--exclude" "'(\.git/|\.git$)'" "\"$TARGETDIR\"")
+    INW_ARGS=("--recursive" "$EVENTS" "-E" "--exclude" $EXCLUDE_OPTS "\"$TARGETDIR\"")
   fi
   GIT_ADD_ARGS="--all ." # add "." (CWD) recursively to index
   GIT_COMMIT_ARGS=""     # add -a switch to "commit" call just to be sure

tests/notify-ignore.bats

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bats
+
+# This is a testscript using the bats testing framework:
+# https://github.com/sstephenson/bats
+# To run it, at a command prompt:
+# bats testscript.bats
+
+load startup-shutdown
+
+
+# Test for exclude from notifications. Verify that a subdirectory is ignored from notification.
+
+function notify_ignore { #@test
+
+    # Start up gitwatch and capture its output
+    ${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/../gitwatch.sh -x test_subdir "$testdir/local/remote" > "$testdir/output.txt" 3>&- &
+    GITWATCH_PID=$!
+
+    # Keeps kill message from printing to screen
+    disown
+
+    # Create a file, verify that it hasn't been added yet, then commit
+    cd remote
+    mkdir test_subdir
+
+    # According to inotify documentation, a race condition results if you write
+    # to directory too soon after it has been created; hence, a short wait.
+    sleep 1
+    echo "line1" >> file1.txt
+
+    # Wait a bit for inotify to figure out the file has changed, and do its add,
+    # and commit
+    sleep $WAITTIME
+
+    # Add second file that we plan to ignore
+    cd test_subdir
+    echo "line2" >> file2.txt
+
+    # Wait a bit for inotify to figure out the file has changed, and do its add,
+    # and commit
+    sleep $WAITTIME
+
+    cat "$testdir/output.txt"
+    run git log --name-status --oneline
+    echo $output
+
+    # Look for files in log: file1 should be there, file2 should not be
+    run grep "file1.txt" $testdir/output.txt
+    [ $status -eq 0 ]
+
+    run grep "file2.txt" $testdir/output.txt
+    [ $status -ne 0 ]
+}
+
+

tests/startup-shutdown.bash

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ teardown() {
   kill -9 %1
   fg
 
+  killall inotifywait
+
   # Also make sure to kill fswatch if on Mac
   killall fswatch
   # Make sure gitwatch script gets killed if script stopped background