Possibility To Whitelist Certain Folders?

[FlorianWendelborn]

For example, ~/.atom/packages/* should probably be included in the backup since it will otherwise break atom upon restoring and won't have that many files anyway (no babel/webpack/etc. necessary, packages normally reasonably small/change rarely).

Alternatively, a configurable entry-point would be great. (In my case, that's ~/Code).

[stevegrunwell]

This seems perfectly sensible, thanks for the suggestion!

[dhcrain]

Same with ~/.vscode/extensions/*

[django23]

@FlorianWendelborn @dhcrain half of this shipped. 🎉

The configurable entry point you asked for is in — ~/.config/asimov/config:

[scan]
extra = /Volumes/Work

And a pattern can be switched off entirely:

[sentinels]
disabled = node_modules package.json

What's still missing is your actual ask: keeping one specific path backed up while the pattern stays on everywhere else — ~/.vscode/extensions being the perfect example. #107 adds skip paths, which is the mechanism that gets us there.

Keeping this open as the tracking issue for path-scoped opt-outs. 🙏