N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 Reference Guide

The ignore Element

The <ignore> element is a child of the <diff> element and specifies a filename path pattern to ignore when using this component in a comparison. This element is typically for files and directories created by the application once installed, such as log files. The configurable attributes of this element may reference component substitution variables.

ignore Element attributes

Name 

Type 

Required 

Configurable 

Description 

path 

String 

Yes 

Yes 

A glob-style pattern matching the filename paths to ignore. For example, “/logs/*.log”