I couldn't figure out the best area label to add to this issue. If you have write-permissions please help me learn by adding exactly one area label.

It's because the /.git directory is being removed when we copy over the sources. This results in the .gitignore file not being used when the tool looks for ignored files. To fix this, all files must be added via git add . when a fake git repo is configured by the tool.

FWIW, when we use the tarball from a release on github, we may not have the original source (and the .gitignore files) to copy over.

FWIW, when we use the tarball from a release on github, we may not have the original source (and the .gitignore files) to copy over.

The tool definitely depends on having the .gitignores file. I get a PR out for a quick workaround ASAP.

Further issue, some repos have been including binaries in their .gitignore files (https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet/blob/8f3d7c26c231d54ad230f427a1005278c815dde6/src/fsharp/.gitignore#L43 for example). This has resulted in those binaries going undetected. I think that the best way forward is to just hardcode common paths that we know should be ignored.

On the Fedora side of things, I am looking at never running prep-source-build.sh (outside of a bootstrap scenario) and manually running a delete. It's looking like this: https://pagure.io/dotnet-sig/dotnet9.0/blob/main/f/dotnet9.0.spec#_427

# Remove all prebuilts and binaries
rm -rf .dotnet/
rm -rf packages/source-built
find -type f \( \
    -iname '*.bin' -or \
    -iname '*.db' -or \
    -iname '*.dll' -or \
    -iname '*.doc' -or \
    -iname '*.docx' -or \
    -iname '*.exe' -or \
    -iname '*.mdb' -or \
    -iname '*.mod' -or \
    -iname '*.msi' -or \
    -iname '*.netmodule' -or \
    -iname '*.nupkg' -or \
    -iname '*.obj' -or \
    -iname '*.p7b' -or \
    -iname '*.p7s' -or \
    -iname '*.pdb' -or \
    -iname '*.pfx' -or \
    -iname '*.so' -or \
    -iname '*.tar.gz' -or \
    -iname '*.tlb' -or \
    -iname '*.winmd' -or \
    -iname '*.zip' \
    \) \
    -delete