Package.json is being ignore if part of the full path matches

[chrisgalvan]

My package.json and package-lock.json are being ignored by https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version when trying to bump the version, the reason is that the full path of my package.json contains some words or matches with some specification in .gitignore file

let's say I have this

# ignore user files
/user/
*.user*

and my project is in the following path

c:/users/myuser/dev/myapp/

so this always evaluates to true:

if (dotgit.ignore(configPath)) return

I have posted something related in the PR #230

[alerque]

This just bit me. I have time*.json in my git ignore list, and it blocked bumping the version in package.json. Whatever pseudo-parsing is causing this is ridiculous and really needs to be fixed and brought inline with actual gitignore parsing. Searching through issues before I found this turned up lots of things that are probably related.

[alerque]

Actually it turns out I had a layered issue on top of this one that is related but not quite the same: but also a too-greedy match being done. See bcoe/dotgitignore#7

[amoshydra]

Thinking of the possible fixes here:

Option 1:

Spawn and parse the output of git check-ignore

Option 2:

Re-implement / update the gitignore algorithm in JavaScript inside the dotgitignore library to match the one from git.

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For the purpose of standard-version, given that git is already required / used in the environment.

What do you think if we go with option 1 and rely on git to perform the check instead?

[amoshydra]

This issue is fixed in absolute-version#1

Tested with commit-and-tag-version@10.1.0