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# Use `.airflowignore` to ignore files in your Astro project

You can create an `.airflowignore` file in the `dags` directory of your Astro project to identify the files to ignore when you deploy to Astro or develop locally. This can be helpful if your team has a single Git repository that contains dags for multiple projects.

The `.airflowignore` file and the files listed in it must be in the same `dags` directory of your Astro project. The Airflow scheduler does not parse the files or directories listed in `.airflowignore` and the Airflow UI does not show dags listed in the file.

For more information about `.airflowignore`, see [`.airflowignore` in the Airflow documentation](https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/core-concepts/dags.html#airflowignore). To learn more about the code deploy process, see [What happens during a code deploy](/docs/astro/deploy-project-image#what-happens-during-a-project-deploy).

## Setup

1. In the `dags` directory of your Astro project, create a new file named `.airflowignore`.

2. List the files or sub-directories you want ignored when you push code to Astro or when you are developing locally. You should list the path for each file or directory relative to the `dags` directory. For example:

   ```text wrap theme={null}
   mydag.py
   data-team-dags
   some-dags/ignore-this-dag.py
   ```

   You can also use regular expressions to specify groups of files. See the [Airflow documentation](https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/core-concepts/dags.html#airflowignore) for more information about usage.

3. Save your changes locally or deploy to Astro.

   Your local Airflow environment automatically updates as soon as you save your changes to `.airflowignore`. To apply your change in Astro, you need to deploy. See [Deploy code](/docs/astro/deploy-code).