Mirror folders walked and uploaded every path under their root, so syncing a
project directory pushed node_modules/, target/, and .git/ to Drive -- quota
spent on files nobody wants there, and enough API traffic to invite rate
limiting.
Rules come from a .pdfsignore (or .protonignore) at the folder root, unioned
with an ignore_patterns list in config.json that defaults to the usual build,
VCS, and editor-leftover globs. Both are re-read at the start of every pass,
so edits apply without restarting the daemon.
The filter deliberately sits on the classification union in
classification_order(), not on walk_local alone. do_reconcile classifies
local | remote | baseline, so a file synced before a rule started matching it
is absent from local but present in the other two -- the "local deleted,
remote untouched" arm, which calls trash_nodes. Filtering only the walk would
have meant that adding a line to .pdfsignore silently trashed files on Drive
on the next pass. Ignored baseline rows are left in place so un-ignoring
re-adopts the existing remote file instead of re-uploading it.
guard_local_wipe takes a filtered baseline for the same reason: an ignored
path is absent from the walk by rule rather than by loss, and counting those
as missing would trip the guard on every pass once a rule covered the tree,
wedging that folder's sync permanently.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JFzNQyb4TWrCRWcnegqWxY
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