How to ignore some folders while building a Greengrass component

Question

Hello

When I'm developing a component locally, I may have some folders in the root, such as .git, .github, etc.. However, these folders are not needed to run the component. My question is, while using

```
gdk component build 
```
to build the component, is there any way to specify which folders are needed in the resulting .zip file, and which should be igored?

For example, the following figure shows the contents in the .zip file built by gdk. An expected behaviour is, only the folder/file marked by the blue arrows are included in the .zip file, whereas the rest are excluded.

![Enter image description here](/media/postImages/original/IMVAJjN3yVQKOdLyfX8Tefmw)

Thank you for your help!

Accepted Answer

Hi cweng. I take it you're using the Zip Build system. There is no way to specify the folders to include. You can see here what GDK will ignore: 
- https://github.com/aws-greengrass/aws-greengrass-gdk-cli/blob/a2b4a4b7b6867a39e12d52a2a3997b9a4a605ac2/gdk/commands/component/BuildCommand.py#L183
- https://github.com/aws-greengrass/aws-greengrass-gdk-cli/blob/a2b4a4b7b6867a39e12d52a2a3997b9a4a605ac2/gdk/commands/component/BuildCommand.py#L199-L229

If you want more control, I think your best option will be to use a custom build type.

How to ignore some folders while building a Greengrass component

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