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Hi, is there any way to make Prefect ignore certain folders when it starts to download flow code?
In local development, I have some temp folder to store data inside the project, so when I run the flow, prefect will also "download" those data, which is not what I want

Do you mean like you have a local dev folder, then when you create a deployment (I assume using a remote storage block), it uploads everything, and then the agent of course also downloads everything when it needs to run the flow?

If so, check out the section about `.prefectignore` here <https://docs.prefect.io/tutorials/deployments/?h=.prefectignore#build-a-deployment-definition>

no I'm just developing everything locally and run the flow locally to test.

I noticed that the first thing it does is to copy the whole folder to the /tmp folder