.buckconfig [project]: ignore 1 file, but not others with the same name

Background:

We have our own buck wrapper script checked in as ./buck in our project root. We also have a lot of developers on OSX who have case-insensitive filesystems.

Our old version of buck was somehow able to realize that ./buck was not a BUCK build file, even despite the case-insensitivity of the filesystem, but upon upgrading buck, we now get an error message about how it can’t parse the shell script as a BUCK build file.

The options we came up with were:

1. forcing everyone to create a case-sensitive partition (painful)
2. renaming ./buck to something like ./buckw (would require us to change a large number of deployment and testing scripts, and get developers used to the new name of the command)
3. ignore buck inside .buckconfig, like so:

[project]
  ignore = buck

Unfortunately, the 3rd option didn’t seem to actually work: even on my case-sensitive filesystem, buck began ignoring changes to actual BUCK build files! Is there a way I could ignore just the file I want? (./buck didn’t seem to work…)

[styurin]

It seems like this problem is specific to one project only and we don’t really want to support cases like this.

As to your problem, you can rename all BUCK files to something else thought it might be too disruptive to do.

My recommendation is to pay one time cost of moving ./buck to something else rather dealing with workarounds. The more time use spend with that the more problems you’ll have later.

get the file to be syntactically correct in both bash and python.

We are moving to Skylark soon and it can break with that migration.

[jiangty-addepar]

Thanks for the recommendations! I’ll probably do hack option 4 for now and figure out a transition plan for renaming ./buck after I finish the upgrade.