Clearing caches after defining webroot => 'public/' alias removes gitignore in cpresources

[Wiejeben]

Description

Basically as the title says. I have never understood the red message when clearing caches until I saw #7286 in the changelog.

I use the public directory instead of web, so I added the following to my general config:

'aliases' => [
    'webroot' => 'public/',
]

Unrelated: Isn't the public directory supposed to automatically be detected in my scenario?

If your web root is something besides web/, public/, public_html/, or html/, or it’s not located alongside your craft executable, you will also need to override the @webroot alias, so it can be defined properly for console commands. (docs)

After executing ./craft clear-caches/all I noticed the red message was gone! But when I went to commit the change I noticed the public/cpresources/.gitignore was now also being deleted.

Even after going to /admin to regenerate the cpresources it does not recreate the .gitignore file.

Additional info

• Craft version: 3.5.17.1
• PHP version: 7.4.13
• Database driver & version: MySQL 5.7
• Plugins & versions: -

[Wiejeben]

Regression of #2823

[brandonkelly]

Thanks for pointing that out! From the looks of it, maybe #2823 was never really resolved in the first place. Not sure why I couldn’t reproduce it at the time, but was able to now, and just fixed for the next release.

I use the public directory instead of web, so I added the following to my general config:

'aliases' => [
    'webroot' => 'public/',
]

You might run into issues setting the @webroot alias to just 'public/'. Better to go with an absolute path:

'aliases' => [
    '@webroot' => dirname(__DIR__) . '/public',
],

[brandonkelly]

Craft 3.5.18 is out now with that fix ✨