October: Dotfiles are missing after the uploading archive to the marketplace

[lautsevich]

We at Shopaholic provide a lot of devtools with our products. In particular, we provide front-end tooling for our Sneakers theme. There's a build folder with the following content:

build/
build/.local.eslintrc
build/.stylelintignore
build/webpack.mix.js
build/.babelrc
build/package.json
build/.stylelintrc.yaml
build/.editorconfig
build/.browserslistrc
build/.eslintrc
build/.stylelintrc
build/.eslintignore

The uploading theme archive contains all these files. But the downloaded archive contains only these:

build/
build/package.json
build/webpack.mix.js

What the reason to repack archives? Is the cutting of hidden files a bug?

[LukeTowers]

@lautsevich @daftspunk will be adding support for a .octoberinclude file that will follow .gitignore syntax, except just for dotfiles inclusion in the marketplace build packages and ignoring everything by default. So, in this case you would add a .octoberinclude file to /build that would contain the following entries:

.local.eslintrc
.stylelintignore
.babelrc
.stylelintrc.yaml
.editorconfig
.browserslistrc
.eslintrc
.stylelintrc
.eslintignore

[kharanenka]

Hi! We added .octoberinclude file to /build folder. When will edits be added to make it work?

[lautsevich]

@LukeTowers, hi! Is there any news regarding implementing the support for .octoberinclude file? Our customers are suffering. 😢

[daftspunk]

This is ready now. Please create a file in the root directory of your plugin or theme called .octoberinclude (lower case) with the contents:

*

This should include all hidden files recursively throughout the next build run.

Don't forget to report back your findings so we can close this ticket.

Thanks!

[kharanenka]

I moved .octoberinclude file to theme root folder and set '*' content for it. We still haven't got hidden files in build folder

[daftspunk]

Apologies there was a deployment issue, please retry.

[kharanenka]

Now everything works! Thanks

[lautsevich]

Great! Thx @LukeTowers @daftspunk!