Including a gitignored file not working

[robertjf]

I have an azds that contains the following snippet:

build:
  useGitIgnore: true
  ignore:
  - "!nuget.develop.config"

however the ignored (in .gitignore) file is still not being copied into the docker image to be used while building. I've tried several versions including the following as indicated in this documentation (which looks wrong by the way):

build:
useGitIgnore: true
ignore:
- "!nuget.develop.config"

I've tried several things with the file listed in the .gitignore including:

COPY ["src/Services/Versioning/Versioning.API/nuget.develop.config", "Services/Versioning/Versioning.API/"]

which fails with

COPY failed: stat /var/lib/docker/tmp/docker-builder057519705/src/Services/Versioning/Versioning.API/nuget.develop.config: no such file or directory

Once I comment out the entry in .gitignore though everything starts working.

[robertjf]

I initially reported this over at the documentation issue tracker: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/35159

[feroz-ahmmed]

Our team also facing the same issue. Why no one is replying to this thread? We decided to use dev spaces as much as we can. Maybe we need to rethink about it.

[stepro]

According to the issue linked by @robertjf, this is an outstanding issue with the Dev Spaces client, which has an incorrect ordering of rules. As @xinyanmsft said, it should apply .gitignore first, then .dockerignore, then azds.yaml ignore rules. This was the original design, so something regressed.

I can confirm that the internal work item was resolved at the end of July, so it should be showing up in production shortly.

[robertjf]

that's great news @stepro - thank you so much :)

[YuzorMa]

This should be fixed in the latest version of the CLI (1.0.20190904.13)

[ruwentos]

I'm using:
Azure Dev Spaces CLI
1.0.20200827.4
API v3.2

The problem is still there.

My azds.yaml:

build:
     dockerfile: Dockerfile.develop
     useGitIgnore: true
     ignore:
     - "!NuGet.Config"

When I comment out the .gitignore rule, it works.

What's the story on that fix?