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I want to sync my workspace directory with my external backup HD. The thing is that I use ensime and it generates an .ensime_cache subdirectory for every project and I don't want to sync those subdirectories with the backup (it can always be downloaded again if I need to rebuild the project).

How do I tell unison to ignore .ensime_cache for every project/subproject (thus with arbitrary directory depth)?

Thanks in advance.

Jeff
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  • Simple googling brought this up: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#ignore – Vombat May 25 '16 at 14:36
  • Thanks, I had already seen and read that page. Problem is that it does not answer my question. All the examples and explanation given refer to fixed depth subdirectories, and this is not the case in question. – Jeff May 25 '16 at 15:01
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    Doesn't the very first example in that linked documentation work for you? – Chris Davies May 25 '16 at 15:27

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As roaima points out, the ignore setting can be used to ignore any path that contains a given keyword, so

ignore = Name .ensime_cache

should work.

Mike Pierce
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