[ptp-user] Synchronized C++ Project Builds Delete Files in .gitignore

["Davidson, Josh" <josh.davidson@xxxxxxxx>]

I’m attempting to use PTP on a remote C++ project.  I’m close to having everything working, but one stumbling block I’m running into is that when I do a build on the remote host (or a custom make target), files that are in the project repository’s .gitignore are deleted from the remote sync directory.  I’ve attempted to exclude .gitignore as a sync filter.  That does prevent it from getting sync’d to the remote host, but still results in ignored files getting deleted once a sync occurs.  If I manually add an “include” filter to the files in question, I can get things working, but run into frequent conflicts if switching between remote and local host.

The project does perform and out-of-source build, but that’s in <project_root>/build, which is excluded in our projects .gitignore (along with a number of other generated files).  What is happening now if we do a remote build, everything in our git exclusions get blown away; basically negating the build on the remote system.  Is there any way to fix that short of adding include filters to negate every build output and cursing each time there’s a sync conflict?

Thanks,
Josh