See https://github.com/bquistorff/statacons/wiki/Using-statacons-with-Dropbox-or-similar, especially the "workaround" at the bottom.
If these were something like scons-sig-....txt, scons-stata-....do and scons-stata-....log, then a simpler ignore rule like
**/scons-sig-*.txt
**/scons-stata-*.do
**/scons-stata-*.log
would be less likely to inadvertently catch other matches (rules.dropboxignore has to be global across the user's entire Dropbox), and would hold up if for some reason the "exactly 8 characters" pattern changed at some point.
See https://github.com/bquistorff/statacons/wiki/Using-statacons-with-Dropbox-or-similar, especially the "workaround" at the bottom.
If these were something like
scons-sig-....txt,scons-stata-....doandscons-stata-....log, then a simpler ignore rule likewould be less likely to inadvertently catch other matches (
rules.dropboxignorehas to be global across the user's entire Dropbox), and would hold up if for some reason the "exactly 8 characters" pattern changed at some point.