Destination matching too aggressive

[bobeagan]

I have my source in /httpdocs-uncompiled and asking to output to /httpdocs but get "Destination directory cannot be or contain the Source directory" when trying to build. If I change the destination in my _config.yml to something like ../site instead of ../httpdocs it works fine.

Assuming that it is just matching too aggressively from PR #535

[parkr]

We just want to be really really really really sure we're not about to call Site#cleanup on your source or you'll lose everything. Is renaming your output/source dir too much of a hassle? I'm just afraid that if we loosen it too much more we'll end up with people killing off their sites by accident.

[parkr]

I'm cool to find out if the destination contains source instead of just doing a silly regex like I think we do now.

[bobeagan]

I've got a workaround in place for now but ideally I'd love to not have to change the names of the directories.

[maul-esel]

Wouldn't just adding a trailing slash à la:

if self.source =~ /^#{self.dest}\//

fix this problem, or am I missing something?

[parkr]

That would work if the source is a subdirectory or the same directory and contains the slash, and if the destination doesn't contain a trailing slash.

Kind of dicey.

[maul-esel]

The solution is to make sure the slashes are in place 😄 (see here). It's a little hacky with the monkey-patching etc. but it works (and it can be done without hacks as well).