stow local ignore
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Stow comes with a local and global ignore list that you can use to ignore certain files or directories.

Date: April 18, 2026

Stow comes with a local and global ignore list that you can use to ignore certain files or directories.

│ If you put Perl regular expressions, one per line, in a .stow-local-ignore file within any top level package directory, in which case any file or directory within that package matching any of these regular expressions will be ignored. In the absence of this package-specific ignore list, Stow will instead use the contents of ~/.stow-global-ignore, if it exists. If neither the package-local or global ignore list exist, Stow will use its own built-in default ignore list, which serves as a useful example of the format of these ignore list files:

Example given from the docs

[code]
  RCS
  .+,v

  CVS
  \.\#.+       # CVS conflict files / emacs lock files
  \.cvsignore

  \.svn
  _darcs
  \.hg

  \.git
  \.gitignore
  \.gitmodules

  .+~          # emacs backup files
  \#.*\#       # emacs autosave files

  ^/README.*
  ^/LICENSE.*
  ^/COPYING

Reference
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https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html