SAVE ARTIFACT ./* AS LOCAL not capturing all files

[jazzdan]

Repro steps

1. git clone https://github.com/jazzdan/earthly-tons-of-artifacts.git
2. cd earthly-tons-of-artifacts
3. earthly +docker-setup

What I expected to happen

The Earthfile copies everything from lib in to the image (COPY lib/* .) then saves everything in the current working directory in to the out directory. out should be exactly the same as lib after earthly runs.

What actually happens

out contains a subset of files from lib:

├── out
│   ├── gdkx-autocleanups.h
│   ├── gdkx11applaunchcontext.h
│   ├── gdkx11cursor.h
│   ├── gdkx11device-core.h
│   ├── gdkx11device-xi2.h
│   ├── gdkx11device.h
│   ├── gdkx11devicemanager-core.h
│   ├── gdkx11devicemanager-xi2.h
│   ├── gdkx11devicemanager.h
│   ├── gdkx11display.h
│   ├── gdkx11displaymanager.h
│   ├── gdkx11dnd.h
│   ├── gdkx11glcontext.h
│   ├── gdkx11keys.h
│   ├── gdkx11monitor.h
│   ├── gdkx11property.h
│   ├── gdkx11screen.h
│   ├── gdkx11selection.h
│   ├── gdkx11utils.h
│   ├── gdkx11visual.h
│   └── gdkx11window.h

[dchw]

Yeah; this is weird. the trouble is that ./* ends up including subdirectories; and those end up triggering logic to remove a folder. The files you are seeing are the ones in the last subdirectory that was processed.

I've got a fix; but in the interim a workaround could be to save the whole directory as a local artifact in the last target, like this:

SAVE ARTIFACT . AS LOCAL out/standalone/

This gets you everything in the same layout thats in /usr/build. Does that help?

[jazzdan]

Thanks @dchw! The fact that there were so many files in that artifact was actually a sign that we accidentally included way too much stuff in it (including those subdirectories), so we were able to work around it by removing all those extra files.

But I figured I'd put this on your radar anyways. :)