Ask HN: How many of you use .slugignore?

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13 years ago

I recently learned about .slugignore, but it seems to be very obscure judging by the scarcity of information about it via Google.

It basically as a .gitignore-esque filter that serves to prevent files from getting compiled into a compressed slug and pushed with your deploys.

In other words, you can put all the files your Heroku app doesn't need to save the push time, bandwidth, and storage space, while the files still remain in your repo, unignored.

http://matthodan.com/2010/08/20/exclude-static-assets-from-heroku-slug.html

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/slug-compiler

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