Go-ipfs: `ipfs add -r directory` doesn't upload files and directories with dot prefix

[eykrehbein]

When I try to upload a directory including a .config file and a .git directory, IPFS uploads everything but those files and folders which are prefixed by a dot. I cannot imagine that this is a wanted feature, so I decided to open this issue.

[Stebalien]

You can pass -H to include hidden files. I also can't imagine why we exclude hidden files by default.

[Stebalien]

Unfortunately, fixing this would break too much. We'll have to reconsider in the next iteration of the API.

[Stebalien]

(closing as we can't fix this right now)

[iuriguilherme]

I vote against adding .hidden files by default as it is historical behavior, I rely on this behavior on automatic scripts which publish sites to IPNS. They shall not make it available via IPFS gateways stuff like .htaccess (bad) or .env (VERY bad).

I would happily change all my scripts but if such a change happen, there SHOULD be warnings everywhere so users don't make it "forever" available unwanted files.