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.ebignore includes symlinked files in ignored directories

See original GitHub issue

Description

Having specified .ebignore to ignore a whole directory, if that directory contains a symlink, that symlink is not ignored and included in the source bundle that eb cli creates.

Steps to reproduce

With an eb application and environment set up - where the project contains a directory called ignore and, within that, one standard directory dir and one symlinked directory symlink; and the project’s .ebignore file contains an entry to ignore that whole directory from the created artifact - run eb deploy env-name.

.ebignore file:

/bin/ignore/

Observed result

The artifact created and uploaded to S3 will contain symlinked directory ignore/symlink, but not ignore/dir.

Structure of example project eb-bug:

Actual (partial) output from eb deploy env-name --debug shows no entry at all for ./bin/ignore/symlink:

...
2021-03-21 08:28:27,522 (INFO) eb : Found .ebignore, using system zip.
2021-03-21 08:28:27,522 (DEBUG) ebcli.core.fileoperations : Project root found at: /path/2/eb-bug
2021-03-21 08:28:27,522 (INFO) eb : Zipping up folder at location: /path/2/eb-bug
2021-03-21 08:28:27,523 (INFO) eb :  +adding: .//
2021-03-21 08:28:27,523 (INFO) eb :   +adding: ./.envrc
2021-03-21 08:28:27,524 (INFO) eb :   +adding: ./Issue.md
2021-03-21 08:28:27,524 (INFO) eb :   +adding: ./.gitignore
2021-03-21 08:28:27,524 (INFO) eb :   -skipping: ./.ebignore
2021-03-21 08:28:27,524 (INFO) eb :  +adding: ./bin/
2021-03-21 08:28:27,525 (INFO) eb :   +adding: ./bin/cli
2021-03-21 08:28:27,525 (INFO) eb :   -skipping: ./bin/ignore/dir/file
2021-03-21 08:28:27,525 (INFO) eb :   -skipping: ./.elasticbeanstalk
2021-03-21 08:28:27,525 (INFO) eb :   -skipping: ./.elasticbeanstalk/app_versions
2021-03-21 08:28:27,525 (INFO) eb :  +adding: ./.git/
...