XenoAtom.Glob

A high-performance .NET glob library with gitignore compatibility.

✨ Features

• Compiled glob patterns with *, ?, character classes, escapes, and **
• Git-compatible ignore parsing for .gitignore and .ignore
• Repository-aware ignore matching with repository discovery and core.ignorecase support
• Low-allocation APIs for hot paths, including ReadOnlySpan<char> overloads and reusable evaluators
• Ignore-aware file tree walking with directory pruning and file metadata capture
• Differential tests against the Git CLI, with net10+ and NativeAOT support

🚀 Quick Example

using XenoAtom.Glob.Git;
using XenoAtom.Glob.IO;

var repository = RepositoryDiscovery.Discover(@"C:\code\my-repo");
var walker = new FileTreeWalker();

// Walk the working tree while honoring the repository ignore rules.
foreach (var entry in walker.Enumerate(repository.WorkingTreeRoot, new FileTreeWalkOptions
{
    RepositoryContext = repository,
}))
{
    Console.WriteLine(entry.RelativePath);
}

📖 User Guide

For more details on how to use XenoAtom.Glob, please visit the user guide.

Thread Safety

• GlobPattern, IgnoreRule, IgnoreRuleSet, IgnoreMatcher, RepositoryContext, FileTreeWalkOptions, FileTreeEntry, and parse/evaluation result values are immutable or internally synchronized and can be shared across threads.
• RepositoryDiscovery is stateless and can be called concurrently.
• FileTreeWalker instances can start multiple concurrent traversals, but each returned enumeration should be consumed by only one thread at a time.
• IgnoreMatcherEvaluator is intentionally reusable but not thread-safe. Create one evaluator per concurrent worker and dispose it when that worker is done.

🪪 License

This software is released under the BSD-2-Clause license.

🤗 Author

Alexandre Mutel aka xoofx.