Cleaning a directory about copycat-action

[andstor]

Yes, you have specified the destination path to resolve to the root of the yceballost.github.io. When using clean, this will clean the destination path. If this is a directory the directory will be deleted. If it is a file, the file will be deleted. Since your dst_path resolves to the root directory, the entire repo is deleted.

Ok, so lets see if I correctly understand what you want.

You want to copy a folder named icn_export to the root of yceballost.github.io.
If the icn_export folder already exists in the yceballost.github.io repo, then you want to delete it first. Correct?

If that's the case, change the src_path to /icn_export/.. Then set the dst_path to /icn_export/.. When clean is set to true, if a icn_export folder exists in yceballost.github.io, it will be emptied (effectively deleted). Then the action will copy over the new icn_export folder from the source repo.

[andstor]

Great ! Happy to help 😄

If you by "fullstop" is referring to the dot ., it technically has no meaning 😆. The dotslash /. is similar to a "no-op", and refers to the immediately preceding directory. So you could also just ended with a slash "/". However, I do often find it useful to include. I tend to think of it as "the contents of this folder".

However, note that it is NOT the same if you end with just text, for example /icn_export. This means the actual file or folder. Adding a slash to the end like /icn_export/ makes the expression handle the path as a directory.

[andstor]

Actually, I did some testing and I discovered that this is actually not the case with Copycat 😱. The UNIX file system should behave as described above. However, it seems that Copycat treats a trailing slash /and a trailing dotslash /.differently 😨 Specifically, it is the ending with / that is faulty.

I need to investigate this further. However, just use a trailing slashdot /. if you want to refer to the contents of a folder. That works as expected and will not break with a potential fix 😅. If you actually want to refer to the folder (or file) don't add anything to the end (just text).

[yceballost]

Works perfect! Thanks mate!

What is the meaning of this last fullstop? /icn_export/.

[andstor]

I think I got a bit carried away 😊 I forgot I am not following standard POSIX file system behavior. A lot of the standard cmd tools handles path resolving differently. Copycat heavily utilizes the unix cp command. This utility seems to be the source of the "problems". However, we should create clearer and more detailed documentation regarding how Copycat handles paths.