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Ignore Patterns

.v8rignore​

By default v8r looks for ignore patterns in a file called .v8rignore in the root of your project. .v8rignore uses gitignore syntax.

Additional ignore files​

You can tell v8r to look for ignore patterns in more files using ignorePatternFiles in your config file or --ignore-pattern-files on the command line. You can disable all ignore pattern files by passing --no-ignore on the command line.

In v8r version 4, you can add .gitignore to your list of ignore files by setting.

ignorePatternFiles: [".gitignore", ".v8rignore"]

In v8r version 5, this will become the default behaviour.

Extglob syntax​

For ad-hoc usage, it is possible to use extglob syntax with v8r. This means you can write patterns that include negations. For example if you wanted to validate all JSON files in the current directory excluding package-lock.json you could call

v8r './!(package-lock)*.json'