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

Posted by :Sven Varkel On : 12.12.2014

Tags:#, extension, magento, package, tgz, wildcard

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.