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How to ignore or include files by wildcards in a Magento tgz package

When you’re packing Magento extensions in Magento admin and want to ignore (or include) a file or directory then there’s a special syntax for it. Let’s say you want to exclude folder “tests” from the tgz package. Number signs (#) are used as wildcard placeholders. Add following line to “Ignore” field:

#tests/#
Your tests folder will be excluded from the tgz package.