allowOutsideOutDir for assets not working again

Versions

Tested on:
1.6.3
1.6.5
Windows 10

Repro steps

• npm install -G @angular/cli

• cd to project with assets that need to be copied outside the project folder. From the .angular-cli.json: “assets”: [{ “input”: “./assets/”, “glob”: “**/*”, “output”: “…/EcView/WebContent/assets”, “allowOutsideOutDir”: true }],

• ng build

Observed behavior

Build failed:

>ng build
An asset cannot be written to a location outside the project.

Desired behavior

The build process copies the assets to the specified folder and completes the compilation of source code.

Other details

Seems similar to, possible regression of https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/8613

[yuvalbl]

Angular version: 6.0.0-rc.5 Angular-CLI version: 6.0.0-rc.5

I’ve created a new project and was able to build to a directory outside the project root, with no allowOutsideOutDir flag

side-note: If I get it correctly, .angular-cli.json configuration is now included in angular.json.

Repro steps:

1. create new project.
2. in angular.json change outputPath to: '../MyDir'
3. run ng build
4. see build output outside the project root directory

Related to #9686 seems like this commit is the problem

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