GoogleContainerTools/skaffold

Allow Absolute paths for file sync

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#2,898 opened on Sep 17, 2019

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Description

It would be very useful to be able to use local absolute filepaths for sync, such as:

    sync:
      manual:
        - src: "/home/user/.config/**"
          dest: "/config/"

This is not possible via the docker image and symlinks also do not work. Open to any other suggestions if there is another way around this.

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Research direction
Investigate the file sync module in the Skaffold codebase to allow absolute paths. The current implementation likely resolves paths relative to the skaffold configuration file directory. Modify the path resolution logic to detect absolute paths and skip the relative resolution for those.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backenddevops
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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Go
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70