processDirectories() fails to return any directories if .gitignore contains directory/project/binary name

[haukened]

Description

If you are building on linux with Go, go will produce a binary of the same name as the project top level directory.
Adding the name of this binary to the .gitignore file will cause processDirectories() to treat this as a wild card under the top level folder, effectively ignoring filesystem change notifications for the entire project.

To Reproduce

(assumes project named foo under /home/you/foo)

1. Create wails project cd && wails init -n foo -t <whichever>
2. add binary name foo to .gitignore
3. run wails dev
4. observe the stunning silence from *fsnotify.Watcher as you frantically edit every go file trying to figure out what is happening.

Expected behaviour

the processDirectories() function applies only to sub-directories of the top level folder, matching the behavior or git for which the .gitignore file is designed.

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Attempted Fixes

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System Details

Wails CLI v2.5.1

 SUCCESS  Done.                                                                                                                                             

# System

OS           | Arch Linux
Version      | Unknown   
ID           | arch      
Go Version   | go1.21.0  
Platform     | linux     
Architecture | amd64     

# Wails

Version         | v2.5.1
Package Manager | pacman

# Dependencies

Dependency | Package Name | Status    | Version    
*docker    | docker       | Installed | 1:24.0.5-1 
gcc        | gcc          | Installed | 13.2.1-3   
libgtk-3   | gtk3         | Installed | 1:3.24.38-1
libwebkit  | webkit2gtk   | Installed | 2.40.5-1   
npm        | npm          | Installed | 9.8.1-1    
pkg-config | pkgconf      | Installed | 1.8.1-1    
* - Optional Dependency

# Diagnosis

Your system is ready for Wails development!

Additional context

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[haukened]

@leaanthony you can assign this one back to me, i just wanted it to be documented. Will tackle tomorrow.

[leaanthony]

There was a recent PR around .gitignore files...

[haukened]

This was pretty simple to solve, just by grabbing the base level directory with filepath.Base(cwd) and then putting an if on the ignoreDirs append to filter the append of the base directory (and consequently the binary name).

[haukened]

Resolved in PR #2869