// this will show what ends up in the fstream-npm package var P = require('fstream').DirReader var tar = require('tar') function f (entry) { return entry.basename !== '.git' } new P({ path: './', type: 'Directory', Directory: true, filter: f }) .on('package', function (p) { console.error('package', p) }) .on('ignoreFile', function (e) { console.error('ignoreFile', e) }) .on('entry', function (e) { console.error(e.constructor.name, e.path.substr(e.root.path.length + 1)) }) .pipe(tar.Pack()) .pipe(process.stdout)