adding excludes ignores before creating file creates folder

[oskarmodig]

If I add a file to excludes before it exists, starting the app generates a folder with the name of the file.

For instance, I usually exclude my entire wordpress folder, but I ignore .htaccess and wp-config.php to be able to edit these.
I have a template yaml-file I use for all my WP-projects, where I have the excludes:

excludes:
  - wordpress
  - "!wordpress/wp-config.php"
  - "!wordpress/.htaccess"

But when I start the app like this it creates the wordpress folder, and in it it creates folders called wp-config.php and .htaccess.
So now I have to create the files manually before starting the app. While this works I'd like to skip these extra steps.

I also tried creating the files in various events, but for some reason the sync seems to happen before anyway. Like this:

events:
  pre-bootstrap-app:
    - appserver: mkdir wordpress
    - appserver: touch wordpress/wp-config.php
    - appserver: touch wordpress/.htaccess
    - appserver: touch wordpress/test.txt

I also tried events like pre-start, ready, post-bootstrap-app and pre-init.

So what I'd like is that if if the ignore path seems to be a file it creates an empty file rather than a directory.

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I'm running lando 3.6.5 with Docker 3.6.0 (67351) on Windows 11.

[GoonerW]

It does the same when you specify a custom php.ini file
config: php: .vscode/php.ini
and the file doesn't exist.

This creates an empty directory called /app/.vscode/php.ini (not file)

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[oskarmodig]

This is still relevant for me