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Closes #237.

Adds an off-by-default Skip Git-ignored project files option to General Settings, Quick Compress, and Add to Archive. When enabled, ZIP and 7z compression omit new files matched by .gitignore rules, including nested rules and exceptions. Finder compression uses the same preference. Existing entries in an archive remain intact, and canceling the save dialog does not change the saved preference.

The label is accompanied by a short explanation so people who do not know .gitignore can understand what it does. The approved release note is translated into every existing changelog language.

Verification

  • swift test --package-path Modules: 582 tests in 138 suites passed. New tests cover nested rules, exceptions, ZIP/7z, Finder-style Compress Contents, default-off behavior, empty selections, existing entries, and preference persistence.
  • Unsigned Release builds passed for both MacPacker and MacPacker Store.
  • Architecture check passed for all 15 bundled Mach-O files (arm64 and x86_64).
  • Manually verified the setting and both compression option screens in an isolated signed build; no installed app was replaced.
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General Settings before and after:

General Settings before
General Settings after

Quick Compress and Add to Archive:

Quick Compress options
Add to Archive options

Most of this PR was written with AI assistance. I verified the behavior manually and with the checks above, and I take responsibility for the contribution.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an option to skip files and folders matched by .gitignore when compressing. You can set this in General Settings or for an individual save; it is off by default.
    • Added support for creating 7z archives when the destination uses a .7z extension.
  • Documentation
    • Added a MacPacker 1.0.1 changelog entry for .gitignore filtering.

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  • Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/GitIgnoreFilter.swift
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Compression can optionally skip files and folders matched by .gitignore when adding disk items to archives. The change adds compression options, application preferences and save controls, and tests for filtering and preference behavior.

Changes

Git-ignore compression

Layer / File(s) Summary
Option and preference wiring
Modules/Sources/Core/AppStorageKeys.swift, Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/CompressionOptions.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/Settings/ArchiveSaveOptions.swift, MacPacker/Features/Settings/GeneralSettingsView.swift, MacPacker/Features/ArchiveContentViewer/ArchiveSavePanel.swift, MacPacker/Localizable.xcstrings
Adds respectGitIgnore, defaulting to false, to compression options and persisted preferences. The settings view and save panel expose the option. Save-panel changes remain pending until remember(); Quick Compress changes persist immediately.
Git-ignore filtering and archive integration
Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/GitIgnoreFilter.swift, Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/SevenZipWriter.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/ArchiveState.swift
Adds .gitignore rule parsing and path matching. When enabled, archive writing applies the filter after .DS_Store exclusion. Recursive folder additions share the filter and skip ignored children.
Compression entry point and validation
MacPacker/Core/UrlHandling/AppUrlCompressHandler.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/GitIgnoreCompressionTests.swift, Config/products/macpacker.json
URL-based compression supplies the archive format and respectGitIgnore preference. Tests cover ignore rules, archive updates, defaults, and preference persistence. The changelog records the feature.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2a2fa

The change adds an off-by-default option to skip Git-ignored files when compressing. No outstanding merge-blocking risk was identified in the supplied context.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to afe03

The option is off by default and preserves existing archive entries. Its main security risk is local resource exhaustion when processing a project containing unusually large or costly ignore rules. Filtering errors stop the observed compression paths before writing, but some failure and filesystem-alias behavior remains uncertain.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: Enabling the option introduces unrestricted parsing and matching of project-controlled ignore files. Complete-file reads and unbudgeted regular-expression work can exhaust memory or stall the application during synchronous recursive collection. This is an inferred local availability risk requiring the user to compress attacker-controlled content with the option enabled, not a verified remote exploit.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported attack scope is the local application processing user-selected filesystem content with filtering enabled. A project supplier can control ignore rules without gaining application privileges. Inspected production callers obtain folder access before compression; broader filesystem exposure through aliases remains unproven.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An attacker-controlled project can supply a very large or costly .gitignore. When the user enables filtering and compresses it, complete-file loading, rule compilation, and repeated matching can consume application resources before archive writing. No exploit measurement or privilege-escalation path was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Filesystem-controlled ignore rules influence inclusion, not application identity or privileges. Root containment uses standardized lexical path components, not canonical symlink resolution. These checks establish the intended rule scope but do not prove a filesystem security sandbox or universal sensitive-file exclusion guarantee.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The observed filtering-error paths contain failure before archive output, while retained in-memory additions make recovery state less atomic. This does not establish that excluded files are published after failure.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bound ignore-file size, rule complexity, and total matching work; provide cancellation during collection. Exceeding a budget should report failure rather than silently ignore exclusion rules.
  • proposed — Stage recursive additions transactionally, or clear them on filtering failure, so recovery cannot mistake a partially collected tree for a complete compression input.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 10 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#237] requests an optional way to omit .gitignore-matched files and folders during compression. The PR adds a default-off respectGitIgnore option, applies ignore rules during recursive fold…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reported changes support issue [#237]. The preference UI, compression integration, tests, and localized changelog entry implement, verify, or document the requested feature. The 7z handling applie…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: skipping Git-ignored files when compressing folders.
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- Around line 45-46: Update GitIgnoreFilter.init(paths:) to handle an empty
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  • Modules/Sources/Core/AppStorageKeys.swift
  • Modules/Sources/Core/ArchiveState.swift
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  • Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/CompressionOptions.swift
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sarensw commented Oct 9, 2026

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Hi @athousanddetails , I made a test on that and found a few errors. For example:

  • non-ASCII rules are ignored
  • matching is case-insensitive
  • empty archive because everything is gitignored succeeds... should this be a warning?

I don't think we need a global setting. The setting in quickcompress and save is correct (similar to ds store) (and rn it is anyway ignored on a standard save even though it is enabled in global settings)

I love this feature. It has been in my mind for so long. But we need to somehow get this properly tested. I don't know if there is any gitignore spec that we can verify against maybe.. Even if there is, are we able to cover 80% of the possibilities (wrt testing)?

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I agree with the testing. There was a guy requesting this feature, and I felt this handy cause i need it too ahah.

But i did simple testing. Feel free to use this and change / adapt as you see fit. But in my head it was easy... cheers!

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