Cannot ignore root directories

[itsRems]

Current Behavior

Considering the following structure:

├─ v1/
│ ├─ packages
│ │├─ pkg-a 
│ │└─ pkg-b
└ packages/
   └─ pkg-c

I would like to set my .nxignore to:

./packages

in order to ignore the root packages directory, but NOT the packages in the v1/packages directory.

However, nx fails to respect my ignore when using the ./ prefix, and therefore includes all packages when running commands.

Expected Behavior

This works fine in nx 16.1.4, where only the root ./packages directory is ignored, but hasn't worked any time we've tried to update nx since. 17.1.3 still has the issue

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

try to ignore any root directory

Nx Report

Node   : 18.17.1
   OS     : darwin-arm64
   yarn   : 4.0.1
   
   nx          : 17.1.3
   @nrwl/tao   : 17.1.3
   typescript  : 5.2.2

Failure Logs

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Package Manager Version

yarn 4.0.1

Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
• Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

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[Cammisuli]

can you try using /packages? The nxignore uses the same logic as gitignore, so that one should work.

We used to read and parse the nxignore file manually and handle special cases like this, but now we use a proper engine that allows us specify custom ignore files, and ./dir does not work in regular gitignore files.

[itsRems]

@Cammisuli /packages ignores v1/packages

[Cammisuli]

oh no, thats not right then. Let me take a closer look

[Cammisuli]

After #20500 is released, you can use /packages in the root .nxignore properly. Sorry about that!

[itsRems]

@Cammisuli thanks ! 🙌

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