https://deeka.work/tags/gitignore/ Recent content in Gitignore on Deeka Hugo -- 0.161.1 en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 03:30:00 +0000 https://deeka.work/bytes/gitignore-pattern-broke-ci-build/ Mon, 18 May 2026 03:30:00 +0000 https://deeka.work/bytes/gitignore-pattern-broke-ci-build/ <p>I spent an hour debugging a failed deployment on Coolify. The Go build was dying at <code>go build ./cmd/server</code> with exit code 1 — no useful error, just silence.</p> <p>The code compiled perfectly locally. Cross-compilation to <code>linux/amd64</code> worked fine. No platform-specific files. Clean <code>go mod verify</code>.</p> <p>Then I ran <code>git check-ignore -v cmd/server/main.go</code> and saw this:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>.gitignore:7:server cmd/server/main.go </code></pre><p>My <code>.gitignore</code> had:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code class="language-gitignore" data-lang="gitignore"># Compiled binary server </code></pre><p>That single word <code>server</code> — without a leading <code>/</code> — matches any path segment named <code>server</code>. It was silently excluding my entire <code>cmd/server/</code> directory from git. The entrypoint was never pushed. Coolify cloned an empty <code>cmd/server/</code> folder and <code>go build</code> had nothing to compile.</p>