.git directory is deleted

[jakirkham]

Appears that .git directories added to the $PREFIX during the build are stripped out entirely by conda-build. However not all . prefixed files are stripped. This is undesirable behavior if one wants to have a git repo in their package. A recipe that demonstrates this behavior is included in the details below. Ran this on macOS, but presumably it shows up everywhere.

# filename: test-recipe/meta.yaml

package:
  name: test-recipe
  version: 1

build:
  script: git clone https://github.com/jakirkham/hello_tests "${PREFIX}/hello_tests"

requirements:
  build:
    - git

test:
  requires:
    - git

  commands:
    - cd "${PREFIX}/hello_tests"
    - git status

[t-bltg]

You can easily change the .git pattern in conda build ?

https://github.com/conda/conda-build/blob/master/conda_build/utils.py#L1000

[jakirkham]

Sorry I'm unclear. Are you saying there is a meta.yaml setting to override this? Or merely suggesting conda-build can be fixed? Would agree with the latter (though it doesn't change my current predicament), but the former would be interesting to know.

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