From 3d7fae03ee7d3862020f18e1d0f4d8d4c4f5f443 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bluwy <bjornlu.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:01:25 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] feat(build): add copyPublicDir option

---
 packages/vite/src/node/build.ts | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts
index 94f08c14b17b64..29b201d33b539a 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ export interface BuildOptions {
    * @default true when outDir is a sub directory of project root
    */
   emptyOutDir?: boolean | null
+  /**
+   * Copy the public directory to outDir on write.
+   * @default true
+   */
+  copyPublicDir?: boolean
   /**
    * Whether to emit a manifest.json under assets dir to map hash-less filenames
    * to their hashed versions. Useful when you want to generate your own HTML
@@ -308,6 +313,7 @@ export function resolveBuildOptions(
     terserOptions: {},
     write: true,
     emptyOutDir: null,
+    copyPublicDir: true,
     manifest: false,
     lib: false,
     ssr: false,
@@ -687,7 +693,11 @@ function prepareOutDir(
         .filter(Boolean)
       emptyDir(outDir, [...skipDirs, '.git'])
     }
-    if (config.publicDir && fs.existsSync(config.publicDir)) {
+    if (
+      config.build.copyPublicDir &&
+      config.publicDir &&
+      fs.existsSync(config.publicDir)
+    ) {
       copyDir(config.publicDir, outDir)
     }
   }

From 117c6f0decde141c019478b47b17ce48bc1444b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bluwy <bjornlu.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:16:07 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] docs: add doc

---
 docs/config/build-options.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/config/build-options.md b/docs/config/build-options.md
index da1d33d453e8d1..7ba882d2869045 100644
--- a/docs/config/build-options.md
+++ b/docs/config/build-options.md
@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@ Set to `false` to disable writing the bundle to disk. This is mostly used in [pr
 
 By default, Vite will empty the `outDir` on build if it is inside project root. It will emit a warning if `outDir` is outside of root to avoid accidentally removing important files. You can explicitly set this option to suppress the warning. This is also available via command line as `--emptyOutDir`.
 
+## build.copyPublicDir
+
+- **Type:** `boolean`
+- **Default:** `true`
+
+By default, Vite will copy files from the `publicDir` into the `outDir` on build. Set to `false` to disable this.
+
 ## build.reportCompressedSize
 
 - **Type:** `boolean`

From 854c175431967b15ac69eb08889c1ab250375712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bluwy <bjornlu.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:19:33 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] chore: add experimental flag

---
 docs/config/build-options.md    | 1 +
 packages/vite/src/node/build.ts | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/config/build-options.md b/docs/config/build-options.md
index 7ba882d2869045..2c60c838fa54ee 100644
--- a/docs/config/build-options.md
+++ b/docs/config/build-options.md
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ By default, Vite will empty the `outDir` on build if it is inside project root.
 
 ## build.copyPublicDir
 
+- **Experimental**
 - **Type:** `boolean`
 - **Default:** `true`
 
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts
index 29b201d33b539a..f4c14834a2380f 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/build.ts
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ export interface BuildOptions {
   /**
    * Copy the public directory to outDir on write.
    * @default true
+   * @experimental
    */
   copyPublicDir?: boolean
   /**