# Make .kopiaignore compatible with .stignore (syncthing project)

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/make-kopiaignore-compatible-with-stignore-syncthing-project/984>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [March 16, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/make-kopiaignore-compatible-with-stignore-syncthing-project/984 "2022-03-16T10:22:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![iBackup](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/ibackup/32/355_2.png) [@iBackup](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/iBackup)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/make-kopiaignore-compatible-with-stignore-syncthing-project/984/1 "2022-03-16T10:22:23Z")

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There is well known and well established project [`syncthing`](https://syncthing.net/) designed for file synchronization between computers and it’s also written in GoLang. The **syncthing** project using well designed processing of [“Ignoring Files”](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html).

My suggestion is to barrow processing of `.stignore` into `.kopiaignore` since it is more feature rich in sense of ignoring patterns.

Unfortunately golang isn’t my area of expertise to attempt to do it on my own to make PR, that’s why a feature request.