dot files support?

[sam0x17]

From what I can tell, this does not work with files begining with a dot, e.g. .gitignore. Is there a way to enable this?

[straight-shoota]

The globbing in bake_folder ignores hidden files. Adding an option to include them would be possible.
As a workaround, you can simply add those files manually using bake_file.

[MarcusE1W]

It seems not only hidden files, but also hidden folders are affected.
e.g. an installation in /home/user/.local/app did not work because of the dot folder.

[straight-shoota]

The fix should be simple. Dir.glob has a parameter match_hidden which allows to enable loading hidden files/folders.
It's just a question whether this should be enabled by default and/or if it should be configurable.
Maybe, for baked_file_system it actually makes most sense to always match hidden files, i.e. use match_hidden: true and it's not configurable.

[straight-shoota]

Oh, I just realized that it's not even Dir.glob at fault here. At least the issue with a root path containing a hidden folder name from mint-lang/mint#544 is not caused by Dir.glob, but the following line where paths with hidden components are explicitly filtered out:

baked_file_system/src/loader/loader.cr

Lines 23 to 25 in f086b45

	files = Dir.glob(File.join(root_path, "**", "*"))
	# Reject hidden entities and directories
	.reject { |path| File.directory?(path) || !(path =~ /(\/\..+)/).nil? }

This obviously doesn't make any sense. It might just be a relic from older versions of Dir.glob which didn't support match_hidden. Even though I still don't think hidden files should be excluded. Using Dir.glob might not be the ideal solution here anyways. We really just need to walk the entire file tree starting at root_path in order to discover all file paths under it.

[ralsina]

This actually makes it impossible (or pretty hard) to package things using baked_file_system for Arch Linux because packages in AUR are built inside .cache so everything is "hidden" for baked_file_system