Build artifact .gitignore is blown away right after it's copied over

[bkosborne]

I'm on BLT 8.6.10, but I had the problems before this release as well.

Looks like by default BLT has a .gitignore file that it copies over to the build artifact. However, it's blown away immediately by the rsync command that copies files from the development repo to the artifact repo:

  <target name="deploy:copy:site" description="Copy required files from /docroot/sites to /deploy/docroot/sites." hidden="true">
    <!-- Make sites/${multisite.name} writable so that we can copy files. -->
    <chmod file="${docroot}/sites/${multisite.name}" mode="0777" />

    <exec dir="${repo.root}" command="rsync -a --no-g --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=${deploy.exclude_file} ${repo.root}/ ${deploy.dir}/ --filter 'protect /.git/'" logoutput="true" checkreturn="true" level="${blt.exec_level}" passthru="true"/>

    <!-- Set sites/${multisite.name} back to 755 permissions. -->
    <chmod file="${docroot}/sites/${multisite.name}" mode="0755" />
  </target>

  <target name="deploy:copy" description="Copy required files from each /docroot/sites to /deploy/docroot/sites." hidden="true">
    <!-- Use our own .gitignore -->
    <copy file="${deploy.gitignore_file}" tofile="${deploy.dir}/.gitignore" overwrite="true"/>
    <!-- Perform settings copy for each multisite. -->
    <foreach list="${multisite.name}" param="multisite.name" target="deploy:copy:site"/>
  </target>

The deploy:copy:site target is run after the .gitignore file is copied over, and the rsync command will delete any file in the build repo that isn't in the excludes list.

Not sure if I just have something misconfigured? I don't have a custom excludes for what it's worth.

[bkosborne]

I wonder what the implications of fixing this are? If it's fixed, I could see some people have unexpected issues with deployments as many things will now potentially be ignored?

[extensibleseth]

I had an issue with this. New modules were added to the artifact on deploy, but weren't included in the artifact repo. I updated the deploy/.gitignore to include them but I've had to do it each time we install a contrib module.