.gitignore becomes .npmignore on run

[JRJurman]

Summary

For some reason, the .gitignore file becomes an .npmignore file on running tram-one-express... Not sure why, or when this regression happened.

This could be a documented feature of npm / node. Requires investigation.

[JRJurman]

This issue does not appear to happen when running the npm run generate-example command in the project, only when running the npx tram-one-express command. This has been verified on both Mac OS and Windows.

[chtinahow]

Similar issue that was seen in this thread: npm/npm#1862

[abhishekr700]

if there's a empty .npmignore, .gitignore would not be touched

[JRJurman]

@abhishekr700 after looking at the above issue, I'm not sure that's the case (also, I don't think we would actually want an empty one, rather something that is a copy of our existing gitignore).

Where did you see that was the case (or do you have an example running where that is the case)?

[abhishekr700]

I read something similar here npm/npm#3763

[JRJurman]

the latter comments (and the ones on the issue @chtinahow linked) seem to indicate that regardless of what files you have, all .gitignores will be converted. if you have a working example though, that would be awesome!