ignore-files
Find, parse, and interpret ignore files
3.0.6
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watchexec/watchexec
What this package is like to depend on
Last release today
22 Aug 2026
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 4 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 15 of 15 stable releases
1 version withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
4 years old
16 releases · first in 2022
2 releases in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
16 releases · Jun 2022 to Aug 2026
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Releases
latest 16-
3.0.622 Aug 2026Release notes
Open source →- adapt ignore-files to gix-config 0.59
- update gix-config requirement in /crates/ignore-files
- adopt release-plz
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3.0.520 Jan 2026Release notes
Open source →- Deps: gix-config 0.50
- Deps: radix-trie 0.3
- Fix: match git's behaviour for finding ignores
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3.0.415 May 2025Release notes
Open source →- Calls to
add_globs()andadd_file()dynamically create a new ignore entry if there isn't one at the location ofapplies_inparam. This allows users to e.g. add globs to a path that previously has no ignore files in. (#908) - Deps: gix-config 0.45
- Calls to
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3.0.309 Feb 2025 -
3.0.214 Oct 2024 -
3.0.128 Apr 2024Release notes
Open source →- Hide fmt::Debug spew from ignore crate, use
full_debugfeature to restore.
- Hide fmt::Debug spew from ignore crate, use
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3.0.020 Apr 2024 -
2.1.004 Jan 2024Release notes
Open source →- Normalise paths on all platforms (via
normalize-path). - Require paths be normalised before discovery.
- Add convenience APIs to
IgnoreFilesFromOriginArgsfor that purpose.
- Normalise paths on all platforms (via
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2.0.001 Jan 2024 -
1.3.226 Nov 2023Release notes
Open source →- Remove error diagnostic codes.
- Deps: upgrade to gix-config 0.31.0
- Deps: upgrade Tokio requirement to 1.33.0
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1.3.104 Jun 2023 -
1.3.014 May 2023 withdrawnRelease notes
Open source →- Use IO-free dunce::simplify to normalise paths on Windows.
- Handle gitignores correctly (one GitIgnoreBuilder per path).
- Deps: update gix-config to 0.22.
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1.2.018 Mar 2023Release notes
Open source →- Deps: update git-config to gix-config.
- Deps: update tokio to 1.24
- Ditch MSRV policy (only latest supported now).
from_environment()no longer looks atWATCHEXEC_IGNORE_FILES.
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1.1.008 Jan 2023 -
1.0.107 Sep 2022 -
1.0.016 Jun 2022