Do not gitignore files

[contao]

Do not gitignore files

[leofeyer]

It would be up to the user to adjust the file then. Otherwise the repo gets flooded with a lot of new files (I e.g. have the Contao demo installed on my dev system).

[aschempp]

I thought the distribution should contain configuration for everyone, not just for you ;-)

[leofeyer]

Indeed. And folders which are not part of the distribution should be ignored. Maybe someone else wants to rename the /files directory.

[aschempp]

Well if that would be true, the gitignore should ignore everything except the known ones… but I guess you agree that would not make sense.

[aschempp]

We discussed to keep the ignore for the following reason:

• Both directories (files and templates) are managed from the Contao backend
• Files that should be under version control should very likely not be placed in that folder(s)

For templates, they can be places in src/AppBundle/Resources/contao/templates. Assuming the AppBundle is loaded last in the AppKernel, any other bundle templates can be overridden.

As an example for files: You probably want to place your design files in web/layout and not in web/files/layout. They should not be manageable through the backend, but they would then be under version control.

[dmolineus]

Files outside the files folder are not accessible by the file picker and so could not be added as external CSS file.

[aschempp]

That's true, I used a custom header script tag to solve that.