.feastignore is a file that is placed at the root of the Feature Repository. This file contains paths that should be ignored when running feast apply. An example .feastignore is shown below:
{% code title=".feastignore" %}
# Ignore virtual environment
venv
# Ignore a specific Python file
scripts/foo.py
# Ignore all Python files directly under scripts directory
scripts/*.py
# Ignore all "foo.py" anywhere under scripts directory
scripts/**/foo.py
{% endcode %}
.feastignore file is optional. If the file can not be found, every Python in the feature repo directory will be parsed by feast apply.
| Pattern | Example matches | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| venv | venv/foo.py venv/a/foo.py | You can specify a path to a specific directory. Everything in that directory will be ignored. |
| scripts/foo.py | scripts/foo.py | You can specify a path to a specific file. Only that file will be ignored. |
| scripts/*.py | scripts/foo.py scripts/bar.py | You can specify asterisk (*) anywhere in the expression. An asterisk matches zero or more characters, except "/". |
| scripts/**/foo.py | scripts/foo.py scripts/a/foo.py scripts/a/b/foo.py | You can specify double asterisk (**) anywhere in the expression. A double asterisk matches zero or more directories. |