Keep images folder between deploys

[kosratdev]

I have images folder on my website which stores user's uploaded images so that I want to keep this folder between deploys to not be deleted with sync.
Is there a way to achieve that??

[Burnett01]

I have images folder on my website which stores user's uploaded images so that I want to keep this folder between deploys to not be deleted with sync.
Is there a way to achieve that??

Hello, sure thing! Simply use the --exclude switch or the --filter switch.

Here is an example (assuming your image folder is located at /var/www/images):

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: rsync deployments
      uses: burnett01/rsync-deployments@4.1
      with:
        switches: -avzr --delete --exclude="images"
        path: src/
        remote_path: /var/www/html/
        remote_host: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_HOST }}
        remote_port: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_PORT }}
        remote_user: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_USER }}
        remote_key: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_KEY }}

If your images folder is located at a deeper level and not at remote_path, simply adjust the path to your folder in the --exclude switch:

--exclude="public/images"

Greetings, Steve

[kosratdev]

I have some default images on it so I have to include it and while developing maybe we will add some other default images too so that I want to merge the images folder but I don't want to merge other folders right now I'm using the following SWITCHES
-rltgoDzvO
It will merge all other folders but I want only to merge the images folder, not others.
is there any solution for my situation?

[Burnett01]

I have some default images on it so I have to include it and while developing maybe we will add some other default images too so that I want to merge the images folder but I don't want to merge other folders right now I'm using the following SWITCHES
-rltgoDzvO
It will merge all other folders but I want only to merge the images folder, not others.
is there any solution for my situation?

Yes you could use the --include switch to only have the images folder deployed by rsync.
Example: --include="*/images" --exclude="*"

If you wish to keep certain images (default images) but not all of them, you could combine --include and --exclude as shown above, or use a filter.

Example with --include/exclude:
--include="/images/" --include="/images/default.png" --exclude="*"

Example with --filter:
Create a filter.conf file in your .github folder (in your repo) with the following content:

+ /images/
+ /images/default.png
- *

Now you can use that filter with the --filter switch:
--filter="merge .github/filter.conf"

[Burnett01]

If you need further help, feel free to re-open this issue.

[Sandra-headscape]

just in case anyone else has trouble trying to use something like --exclude={.git,.ddev} - the curly brace expansion only works on specific shells, so you're better off either using a file for exclusions or just --exclude=path for each one

thanks for a great action (: