From eecb4d3e380dae987b6a0f56b352683c973ab912 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Abendshien <46939827+CyanVoxel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 13:38:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: account for leading slash pattern in wcmatch (#1092)

---
 src/tagstudio/core/library/ignore.py    | 13 +++++++
 src/tagstudio/core/utils/refresh_dir.py | 45 +++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tagstudio/core/library/ignore.py b/src/tagstudio/core/library/ignore.py
index 66237cb2..af850b4e 100644
--- a/src/tagstudio/core/library/ignore.py
+++ b/src/tagstudio/core/library/ignore.py
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ def ignore_to_glob(ignore_patterns: list[str]) -> list[str]:
         ignore_patterns (list[str]): The .gitignore-like patterns to convert.
     """
     glob_patterns: list[str] = deepcopy(ignore_patterns)
+    glob_patterns_remove: list[str] = []
     additional_patterns: list[str] = []
+    root_patterns: list[str] = []
 
     # Mimic implicit .gitignore syntax behavior for the SQLite GLOB function.
     for pattern in glob_patterns:
@@ -66,6 +68,16 @@ def ignore_to_glob(ignore_patterns: list[str]) -> list[str]:
             gp = gp.removeprefix("**/").removeprefix("*/")
             additional_patterns.append(exclusion_char + gp)
 
+        elif gp.startswith("/"):
+            # Matches "/file" case for .gitignore behavior where it should only match
+            # a file or folder int the root directory, and nowhere else.
+            glob_patterns_remove.append(gp)
+            gp = gp.lstrip("/")
+            root_patterns.append(exclusion_char + gp)
+
+    for gp in glob_patterns_remove:
+        glob_patterns.remove(gp)
+
     glob_patterns = glob_patterns + additional_patterns
 
     # Add "/**" suffix to suffix-less patterns to match implicit .gitignore behavior.
@@ -75,6 +87,7 @@ def ignore_to_glob(ignore_patterns: list[str]) -> list[str]:
 
         glob_patterns.append(pattern.removesuffix("/*").removesuffix("/") + "/**")
 
+    glob_patterns = glob_patterns + root_patterns
     glob_patterns = list(set(glob_patterns))
 
     logger.info("[Ignore]", glob_patterns=glob_patterns)
diff --git a/src/tagstudio/core/utils/refresh_dir.py b/src/tagstudio/core/utils/refresh_dir.py
index beec03b2..f32e822d 100644
--- a/src/tagstudio/core/utils/refresh_dir.py
+++ b/src/tagstudio/core/utils/refresh_dir.py
@@ -162,31 +162,34 @@ class RefreshDirTracker:
 
         logger.info("[Refresh]: Falling back to wcmatch for scanning")
 
-        for f in pathlib.Path(str(library_dir)).glob(
-            "***/*", flags=PATH_GLOB_FLAGS, exclude=ignore_patterns
-        ):
-            end_time_loop = time()
-            # Yield output every 1/30 of a second
-            if (end_time_loop - start_time_loop) > 0.034:
-                yield dir_file_count
-                start_time_loop = time()
+        try:
+            for f in pathlib.Path(str(library_dir)).glob(
+                "***/*", flags=PATH_GLOB_FLAGS, exclude=ignore_patterns
+            ):
+                end_time_loop = time()
+                # Yield output every 1/30 of a second
+                if (end_time_loop - start_time_loop) > 0.034:
+                    yield dir_file_count
+                    start_time_loop = time()
+
+                # Skip if the file/path is already mapped in the Library
+                if f in self.library.included_files:
+                    dir_file_count += 1
+                    continue
+
+                # Ignore if the file is a directory
+                if f.is_dir():
+                    continue
 
-            # Skip if the file/path is already mapped in the Library
-            if f in self.library.included_files:
                 dir_file_count += 1
-                continue
+                self.library.included_files.add(f)
 
-            # Ignore if the file is a directory
-            if f.is_dir():
-                continue
+                relative_path = f.relative_to(library_dir)
 
-            dir_file_count += 1
-            self.library.included_files.add(f)
-
-            relative_path = f.relative_to(library_dir)
-
-            if not self.library.has_path_entry(relative_path):
-                self.files_not_in_library.append(relative_path)
+                if not self.library.has_path_entry(relative_path):
+                    self.files_not_in_library.append(relative_path)
+        except ValueError:
+            logger.info("[Refresh]: ValueError when refreshing directory with wcmatch!")
 
         end_time_total = time()
         yield dir_file_count