XD-DENG commented on a change in pull request #3939: [AIRFLOW-3104] Add
.airflowignore info into doc
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/pull/3939#discussion_r220859759
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File path: docs/concepts.rst
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@@ -863,3 +863,30 @@ do the same, but then it is more to use a virtualenv and
pip.
to be available on the system if a module needs those. In other words only
pure python modules can be packaged.
+
+.airflowignore
+''''''''''''''
+
+A ``.airflowignore`` file specifies the directories or files in ``DAG_FOLDER``
+that Airflow should intentionally ignore. Each line in ``.airflowignore``
+specifies a regular expression pattern, and directories or files whose names
+(not DAG id) match any of the patterns would be ignored (under the hood,
+``re.findall()`` is used to match the pattern). Overall it works like a
+``.gitignore`` file.
+
+``.airflowignore`` file should be put in your ``DAG_FOLDER``.
+For example, you can prepare a ``.airflowignore`` file with contents
+
+.. code::
+
+ project_a
+ tenant_[\d]
+
+
+Then files like "project_a_dag_1.py", "TESTING_project_a.py", "tenant_1.py",
+"project_a/dag_1.py", and "tenant_1/dag_1.py" in your ``DAG_FOLDER`` would be
ignored.
Review comment:
Worth mentioning to users. Sorry I missed to cover this.
Let me modify later and ping you then.
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