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"content" folders are not published if they don't contain at least one file

See original GitHub issue

If I specify a content folder in project.json that doesn’t contain any files …

"content": [ 
    "Views", 
    "wwwroot",
    "logs"
],

(logs in this case is an empty folder) … the published output doesn’t include the folder …

capture1

If I put a file in the logs folder (test.txt in this case), it publishes the folder …

capture2

I don’t think it should work that way. If I specify an empty content folder (or a series of nested empty folders), then I should get folders in the published output that match what I’m requesting.

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments:13 (5 by maintainers)

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pksorensencommented, Jan 12, 2017

I just ran into the same problem with todays dotnet core tooling. Any folder not created prior to dotnet publish call will not be published. My case is that I have prepublish tasks running that generate some files, but these files are not published due to the folders did not exists prior to calling dotnet publish.

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TheRealPiotrPcommented, Jul 28, 2016

The team is actively working on enabling MSBuild and the component affected will be superseded by the new project system, so I am closing this issue.

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