IGNFileFormat

.ign files

What is an .ign file?

When you upload an addon, some files/directory are ignored and not uploaded. If you want to configure more closely which files/directories should be ignored, you need an .ign file.

What goes into an .ign file?

The file format is one entry per line.

• * and ? wildcards are supported (? mean any character, * mean any number of any character)
• Directories are identified by a trailing /

Where do I put the .ign file?

2 Solutions :

• put campaignname.ign next to the campaignname.pbl and campaignname.cfg (old style)
• put a _server.ign next into the campaign directory (new style)

How does this work?

If there is no file, the default filter as of Wesnoth 1.10 is:

.*
.*/
__MACOSX
#*#
*~
*-bak
*.swp
*.pbl
*.ign
_info.cfg
*.exe
*.bat
*.cmd
*.com
*.scr
*.sh
*.js
*.vbs
*.o
Thumbs.db
*.wesnoth
*.project

If there is an .ign file the filter is the content of the file. Each file or directory matching any entry of the .ign file will not be uploaded to the add-ons server.