Collectstatic ignore list expansion on a per project basis

[Mark Jones]

Currently collectstatic gets its default ignores from this code.

        ignore_patterns = options['ignore_patterns']
        if options['use_default_ignore_patterns']:
            ignore_patterns += ['CVS', '.*', '*~']

In some of my projects I need more than this, and the only way to get that behavior is to remember the command line options and patterns. Working on many different projects all the time, this is problematic for me.

I'd like to propose a settings file addition that would pull those ignore patterns from settings.COLLECT_STATIC_IGNORE or something similar.

I'd be willing to write the code if this is accepted. We could leave the default alone, but allow people to put various things in the list to make deployment less of a hassle.

Part of the issues for me include sass files, themes associated with sass files, "uncompiled" javascript that needs to be served on debug, but does not need to be in the production static folder.

[Tomas Krajca]

Hi,

This is the file that the code is in ​https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py

This seems like a cool feature to me.

[Tomáš Ehrlich]

Added STATICFILES_IGNORE_PATTERNS to settings.

[Tomáš Ehrlich]

I've added STATICFILES_IGNORE_PATTERNS setting. Implementation was mostly straightforward. The only problem is backward compatibility.

The default value of STATICFILES_IGNORE_PATTERNS is ['CVS', '.*', '*~'], the same as default patterns hard-coded in management command. When user passes --no-default-ignore option, these default patterns are substracted and deprecation warning raised.

Need review for this, also for docs. Tests passed.

[Tim Graham]

We try to avoid new settings at all costs, although I don't have any alternate suggestions in this case. Anyway, the patch needs to be updated.

[Tomáš Ehrlich]

Patch updated, see PR ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/2854

[Jannis Leidel]

This is simple, don't add a global setting but a parameter to the staticfile app config. That's where such things belong now.

[Claude Paroz]

Tried to provide a new ​PR with the app config way.

[Claude Paroz <claude@…>]

In f4c2b8e:

Fixed #20189 -- Allowed customizing staticfiles ignored_patterns list

Thanks Tim Graham for the review.