Allow hidden files such as .gitignore to show up in the template zip

[steveash]

I would like my template to go ahead and create a default .gitignore file for the new project. I added a .gitignore file to my template folder, but it doesn't show up in the template zip (and thus obviously not when I create the project from the template.

The workaround I'm using right now is to include a gignore.txt in the template zip and then in the lazybones.groovy I rename the file to .gitignore

[pledbrook]

Is this an issue with the Gradle plugin? I thought it might be one of the default package exclusions, but it's not. Which means that file should be packaged.

An alternative approach is to use the scmExclusions() method in the post-install script to specify the ignore patterns. This works in combination with the --with-git command line option to create a .gitignore file and initialise a git repository.

[pledbrook]

I tested this with a very simple Gradle build and discovered that the built-in Zip task seems to ignore the .gitignore file. An arbitrary hidden file, such as .hiddenFile, is included in the zip package though. Bizarre. Possibly a bug in the Zip task.

[pledbrook]

Check out GRADLE-1883 for a workaround. It's ugly, but the only solution until Gradle gets an option to disable the defaults.