Hugo: ignoreFiles does not work as documented

[raxod502]

I cannot get the example from the documentation of ignoreFiles to work in a brand new project.

Using Hugo 0.41 on macOS 10.11.6, I created a new site using hugo new site testing and added the following to config.toml as per the documentation of ignoreFiles:

ignoreFiles = [ "\\.foo$", "\\.boo$" ]

The documentation says that this should

cause Hugo to ignore files ending with .foo and .boo when rendering

but when I create a file at the path static/example.foo and run hugo, it is copied to public/example.foo, i.e. not ignored at all.

It seems that either there is a bug in Hugo or the documentation must be updated.

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[XhmikosR]

This is still valid and it seems there is a PR available #5312

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[stapelberg]

I’ve sent PR https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/5649 to address this issue

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[stapelberg]

This isn’t stale, and I have sent a PR to fix the issue.

[alertedsnake]

Ugh, this is exactly the problem I'm having! Thanks for the fix, I've built hugo from your fork.

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[XhmikosR]

This is still a valid issue and has a PR

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[XhmikosR]

This is still a valid issue and has a PR

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[alertedsnake]

Stale bots are great, aren't they? This is still a valid issue and has a PR.