sdist.include can not work

[ChaoII]

If I don’t specify sdist.include, the source distribution includes only the default files and directories, and it correctly respects the .gitignore file.
However, once I override sdist.include, the source distribution ends up including everything in the project directory — even files and folders that should normally be excluded.
Even when I set sdist.include = ["csrc"], the resulting source distribution still contains all files and directories from the current working directory where I run python -m build --sdist

[LecrisUT]

Can you run with debug logging and see if the reported settings is after the override (I am not sure if it is displayed). If it's not there, you might have to patch in a print debug in

scikit-build-core/src/scikit_build_core/build/sdist.py

Lines 152 to 159 in a7d5bf4

	paths = sorted(
	each_unignored_file(
	Path(),
	include=settings.sdist.include,
	exclude=settings.sdist.exclude,
	build_dir=settings.build_dir,
	)
	)

[henryiii]

I'm going to rework file inclusion/exclusion in 0.12, #1048 is on hold for that. I plan to make a quick patch release soon (for the increased speed on large directory trees we got recently) then start on 0.12, there are quite a few open PRs that are targeting 0.12.

Debug logging should explain exactly what it's doing.

Could you try sdist.include = ["/csrc"]? Unless you mean you want excluded files inside /csrc to not show up - include overrides exclude in the current system.

[ChaoII]

I'm going to rework file inclusion/exclusion in 0.12, #1048 is on hold for that. I plan to make a quick patch release soon (for the increased speed on large directory trees we got recently) then start on 0.12, there are quite a few open PRs that are targeting 0.12.

Debug logging should explain exactly what it's doing.

Could you try sdist.include = ["/csrc"]? Unless you mean you want excluded files inside /csrc to not show up - include overrides exclude in the current system.

It's my directory tree

wheel.packages = ["python/modeldeploy"]

#sdist.exclude = [
#    ".github",
#    "csharp",
#    "examples",
#    "tests",
#    "capi",
#]

sdist.exclude = [
    "./csrc",
]

When I execute python -m build --sdist commond，other directories and files are contained in the tar.

[henryiii]

I think I see the problem; I think you are expecting include to work a different way. Include is an override for unincluded files; setting it does not cause all other files to be excluded. Setting include is a way to get an ignored file to be unignored; it's intended to restore files that have been excluded. It was meant as a way to add back in a file that was gitignored.

To get the behavior you want, you need to ignore all, then include what you want to keep.

The next minor version will have options for what system to start with; there will be a "manual" mode that works exactly like what you are trying to do. I think the default (as long as you set 0.12+ or leave the min version unset) will be nicer, too.

[henryiii]

I'm adding the logging that explains why files get ignored or kept; it was part of #1048 but that is being delayed till 0.12 since it's a behavior change.

[ChaoII]

I understand what you mean. Thank you for all the work you’ve done for this.