Possible .dockerignore misconfiguration

[tomokinakamaru]

(I am posting this here because I was not sure if it is actually a bug or not.)

As part of my research, I am analyzing how developers configure .dockerignore in popular repositories.

During my analysis, I noticed that /.dockerignore might have been written under the assumption that .dockerignore and .gitignore follow the same pattern semantics, while they actually differ.¹ In particular, the following pattern drew my attention:

labelbox-python/.dockerignore

Line 1 in a508d19

__pycache__/

According to Docker's specification, this pattern matches __pycache__ only in the top-level directory. (To ignore __pycache__ in any directory, the .dockerignore file needs to list **/__pycache__)

Was this pattern written intentionally? If not, I'd be happy to submit a pull request to adjust it.

And if possible, could one of the maintainers tell me whether they were aware of the difference between .dockerignore and .gitignore? (I would like to know whether the differences are generally well recognized, or if they tend to slip developers' minds.)

Thank you again for maintaining this repository!

Footnotes

1. See .gitignore doc, .dockerignore doc, and a blog post about the differences ↩