Building my project with metalsmith obliterates src, .git directories

[srcreigh]

Repro steps

git clone https://github.com/srcreigh/srcreigh.github.io.git
cd srcreigh.github.io/
git checkout 368d07158b684 # broken on this commit
cd _src/
./setup.sh
npm install metalsmith@0.6.0 --save
nodejs build.js

I'm working on getting to the bottom of this. It's a pretty serious issue

[srcreigh]

Update: It deletes .git/ and the source directory without using any middleware

[srcreigh]

I think this functionality should instead be implemented as a plugin (might already be implemented as a plugin, metalsmith-cleanscript does something related).

Alternatively, at the very least, it should be configurable.. Although that might mean an extension of the javascript API if I'm not mistaken, which wouldn't be very good.

[ericgj]

As a workaround you could build to the standard "build" dir and move the files afterwards, either in the build callback or just like nodejs build.js && mv build/* ..

or even something like this if you wanted your gh-pages branch to be "pristine": (haven't tested)

git checkout --orphan gh-pages 
git rm -fr .
git checkout master -- ./_src
nodejs ./_src/build.js && mv ./_src/build/* . && rm -fr ./_src

[srcreigh]

@ericgj sorry for missing your suggestion here!

[ianstormtaylor]

Definitely down for this to be configurable. Discussion here: #51