"Show files added since..." feature should ignore the `.github` directory

[sindresorhus]

I keep getting:

? The following new files are not already part of your published package:
- .github/workflows/main.yml
Continue? (y/N)

Which is not useful.

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// @bunysae

[sindresorhus]

It also showed a false-positive just now:

~/dev/oss/is-retry-allowed master
❯ np
? The following new files are not already part of your published package:
- index.test-d.ts
Continue? (y/N) y

iindex.test-d.ts is not in files in package.json.

[sindresorhus]

Another bug, I got this when publishing p-timeout just now (this commit sindresorhus/p-timeout@e26f08d):

~/dev/oss/p-timeout master
❯ np
? The following new files are not already part of your published package:
-
Continue? (y/N)

[sindresorhus]

The last issue is caused by: 3466903

[bunysae]

There is maybe a misunderstanding. The prompt shows the files, which are added to the git repository, but which are NOT added to the npm package. I assume you thought the prompt shows the files which are added to the git repository and which will be published in the npm package.

[sindresorhus]

The message is very misleading then.

The following new files are not already part of your published package:

This makes it sound like it's just a warning that a new file is added to the package, not that it's not going to be included in the package.

[sindresorhus]

Shouldn't we do both? For a new file, indicate that it will be included in the package, and if it will not, indicate that too. That way there's no way you accidentally include a file you don't want, and also no way to forget to include a file. That was the original intent of the feature.

[dopecodez]

Can we close this it it is implemented? @sindresorhus @bunysae

[sindresorhus]

I don't think all the issues mentioned here are resolved.

[nerdyman]

I'm also getting this for the .storybook directory, should it be ignored too?

[Drarig29]

Maybe there should be a setting to add an array of directories to ignore.

[sindresorhus]

I don't think it's worth having a setting for this. We can hard-code a list of common things. You should only be prompted about this once anyway.

[thasmo]

Just encountered this and I'm quite confused what it means and for me it's unclear what decision I'm actually making here.

➜ np prerelease --tag latest
? The following new files are not already part of your published package:
- src/core/collection.ts
Continue? (y/N) 

In my case, src is never ever part of the published package, as I am transpiling the TypeScript code to JavaScript code for the published package. Why does the prompt actually recommend N as answer here? What does this mean? :D

[sindresorhus]

@thasmo Can you try out #595? It should be clearer there.