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Dbignore – .gitignore for Dropbox

75 points by tiedye 12y ago

shrikar 12y ago
I had done something similar to this https://github.com/sarchak/smartcopy https://github.com/sarchak/smartcopy
mseri 12y ago
That is something I was dreaming of!!! I run to understand more on github. Thanks for building it
squiguy7 12y ago
I don't know if you are the author, but why Haskell? Not to say it's a bad choice, I am just curious.
- tiedye 12y ago
  I enjoy programming in Haskell, and this was an opportunity to practice. I initially wrote it in Objective-C++, but I found a good trie implementation in Haskell. Eventually, I want to make the entire project Haskell.
tokenizerrr 12y ago
The title should probably reflect that this is mac only?
- amirmc 12y ago
  That seems unnecessary. The entire page is only 126 words and it's clearly stated that only OSX is supported.
joaomsa 12y ago
Anybody explain how this works? Looks like it injects the Dropbox executable's lstat and open syscalls
- tiedye 12y ago
  That is exactly how it works. lstat and open are hooked so that they mark the file as non-existant if it is in the .dbignore file.
zzleeper 12y ago
How complicated would it be to update this for Win/Linux?
- avargas 12y ago
  I haven't looked at the code but my guess is it wouldn't be that hard. Implementing a quick filesystem on top of FUSE and pointing Dropbox to it.
- tiedye 12y ago
  It shouldn't be too hard with linux. LD_PRELOAD should be able to accomplish the same thing as DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES. Windows will probably be a little harder as lstat does not exist.
idank 12y ago
What happens if another client adds an ignored file and the current one tries to sync? I guess Dropbox will try to create it and fail repeatedly? Neat trick!
dy 12y ago
Can't tell you how awesome this is (both the idea and implementation). I've actually had to turn off Dropbox recently since things like node_modules just kills my computer when Dropbox is indexing.
joshcrowder 12y ago
This is great! Nice implementation too. I'm seeing no such file or directory on .dropbox_inj.dylib is that normal? https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore/issues/4 https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore/issues/4

75 points by tiedye 12y ago

shrikar 12y ago

I had done something similar to this https://github.com/sarchak/smartcopy https://github.com/sarchak/smartcopy

mseri 12y ago

That is something I was dreaming of!!! I run to understand more on github. Thanks for building it

squiguy7 12y ago

I don't know if you are the author, but why Haskell? Not to say it's a bad choice, I am just curious.

tiedye 12y ago
I enjoy programming in Haskell, and this was an opportunity to practice. I initially wrote it in Objective-C++, but I found a good trie implementation in Haskell. Eventually, I want to make the entire project Haskell.

tokenizerrr 12y ago

The title should probably reflect that this is mac only?

amirmc 12y ago
That seems unnecessary. The entire page is only 126 words and it's clearly stated that only OSX is supported.

joaomsa 12y ago

Anybody explain how this works? Looks like it injects the Dropbox executable's lstat and open syscalls

tiedye 12y ago
That is exactly how it works. lstat and open are hooked so that they mark the file as non-existant if it is in the .dbignore file.

zzleeper 12y ago

How complicated would it be to update this for Win/Linux?

avargas 12y ago
I haven't looked at the code but my guess is it wouldn't be that hard. Implementing a quick filesystem on top of FUSE and pointing Dropbox to it.
tiedye 12y ago
It shouldn't be too hard with linux. LD_PRELOAD should be able to accomplish the same thing as DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES. Windows will probably be a little harder as lstat does not exist.

idank 12y ago

What happens if another client adds an ignored file and the current one tries to sync? I guess Dropbox will try to create it and fail repeatedly? Neat trick!

dy 12y ago

Can't tell you how awesome this is (both the idea and implementation). I've actually had to turn off Dropbox recently since things like node_modules just kills my computer when Dropbox is indexing.

joshcrowder 12y ago

This is great! Nice implementation too. I'm seeing no such file or directory on .dropbox_inj.dylib is that normal? https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore/issues/4 https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore/issues/4