Integrating bashate into something as complicated as devstack, the file ignore problem has come up. We seem to have 3 approaches out under review right now: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/117425 : --exclude-dirs https://review.openstack.org/#/c/115794 : --exclude-dirs (different implementation) https://review.openstack.org/#/c/113892 : removing hidden directories I'm actually kind of convinced now that none of these approaches are what we need, and that we should instead have a .bashateignore file in the root dir for the project instead, which would be regex that would match files or directories to throw out of the walk. I think that would handle the concerns that everyone is having, and hopefully provides a more clear set of semantics in integrating. Anyone up for taking a stab at this patch? -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net