Chokes on vim swap files

[durka]

If I don't delete *.swp before running cobalt build, it sometimes dies saying there is invalid UTF-8 in a file. Probably, it should either skip non-UTF-8 files (and emit a warning), or know how to skip common editor swap files.

[johannhof]

Hi there, thanks for reporting!

I would actually say we need both functionalities. It shouldn't crash on invalid UTF-8 but maybe just skip the file with a warning. (We'd have to ramp up the error handling system for that).

We should also provide an --ignore flag (which could also be a .cobalt.yml option later) that could be passed a list of file endings to not copy.

I would recommend doing the latter option first. It shouldn't be too hard. If you want to give it a shot, I'd be happy to support you.

[durka]

See my other PR for a small ramp-up of the error handling system :)

[durka]

Hmm, I see it already skips dotfiles, so vim's .post.md.swp shouldn't be a problem... now I need to figure out which files it was crashing on before. It was fixed by deleting *.swp so there is something strange going on.

[durka]

Aha, it doesn't skip dotfiles in the layout directory! That's the bug, I think.

[durka]

See new PR.