Hey Roshan, It appears you're correct that this is expected behaviour. But I want to encourage you to make a Feature Request to change this in the Public Issue Tracker for App Engine <http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list>. We monitor it regularly and it's open to users for situations just like yours.
Cheers, Nick Cloud Platform Community Support On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 2:57:36 AM UTC-4, roshan wrote: > > Hi, > > The code at the below location > (com.google.appengine.tools.admin.Application), which is involved in > copying over the app files to a staging directory before uploading them > seems to suggest that it's hard-coded that files / folders starting with > "." will be ignored, which is different from the "skip_files" config based > approach of the python app and is quite unfortunate :-( > > > https://github.com/greghaskins/googleappengine/blob/e78ea5c1ef55564b776ff155630202afb2d4ecfa/java/src/main/com/google/appengine/tools/admin/Application.java#L699 > > I really wanted to avoid mapping "/.aa/bb.config" to a servlet! :-( > > Cheers, > Roshan > > On Monday, 12 September 2016 00:46:07 UTC+5:30, Vitaly Bogomolov wrote: >> >> Hi, Roshan >> >> You need to define your own "skip_files" directive in app.yaml file. >> >> The skip_files has the following default: >> >> >> skip_files: >> >> >> - ^(.*/)?#.*#$ >> >> - ^(.*/)?.*~$ >> >> - ^(.*/)?.*\.py[co]$ >> >> - ^(.*/)?.*/RCS/.*$ >> >> - ^(.*/)?\..*$ >> >> >> https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appref >> >> >> WBR, Vitaly. >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/9e7725f0-3e58-47ec-915a-3758222ef139%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
