Prevent App Engine hot reload on change in PyCharm .idea folder

Question

The App Engine local dev server reloads every time there's a change to files - which is cool. What's uncool is that it also reloads on changes in .idea folder of the PyCharm editor, cluttering the logs. Tried adding this to app.yaml: skip_files: - ^(.*/)?#.*#$ - ^(.*/)?.*~$ - ^(.*/)?.*\.py[co]$ - ^(.*/)?.*/RCS/.*$ - ^(.*/)?\..*$ - ^\.idea$ # added this line in order to try and ignore .idea folder on build

This didn't help. Still rebuilds every time I do arbitrary stuff in the editor (not changing any code).

How can I tell App Engine dev server which folder to ignore for hot reload?

Answer 1

dev_appserver.py --help mentions:

--watcher_ignore_re WATCHER_IGNORE_RE
                        Regex string to specify files to be ignored by the
                        filewatcher. (default: None)

In this case this is related to dev_appserver.py, which will detect changes in local app.yaml and reload local server, while app.yaml running in GAE is not supposed to do because reloading is done by gcloud app deploy.