`collectstatic --ignore` pattern matching

[Eric Eldredge]

Hi all,

I'm working on a project where I want to ignore certain files when running collectstatic.

I am having success only when i use 'basename' patterns, such as *.exe or vendor, but not when trying to match file paths, such as vendor/*.exe.

It seems the reason i'm not seeing the behavior i expect is because django.contrib.staticfiles.utils.get_files only checks the ignore patterns on the base names (for both files and directories), but does not check the full file path.

Is this the correct behavior, or a bug? If it is the correct behavior, what is the recommended approach for gaining more fine-grained control over what is collected by collectstatic?

Thanks in advance for any consideration.

[Shimul Taleb]

Django use this `get_fiels` function to get all files, folders name  list https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/staticfiles/utils.py#L21 

So it does not have any knowledge about path.