Why vendor folder is ignored (go project)

[korjavin]

I am trying to deploy my go/http project as a function with a command like

gcloud functions deploy table-viewer --verbosity=debug --entry-point LambdaX --runtime go111 --trigger-http --set-env-vars AUTH_LOGIN=login,...

.gcloudignore contains both

go.sum
go.mod

From the output :

INFO: Using .gcloudignore file at [.../table-viewer/.gcloudignore].
DEBUG: Skipping file [go.mod]
DEBUG: Skipping file [go.sum]
DEBUG: Skipping file [.gitignore]
DEBUG: Skipping file [vendor]
DEBUG: Skipping file [vendor/golang.org]
DEBUG: Skipping file [vendor/golang.org/x]
DEBUG: Skipping file [vendor/golang.org/x/sys]
...

Why it ignores vendor folder?

[sydneypemberton1986]

The issue is caused by the fact that .gcloudignore gets automatically generated with .gitignore in it which causes it to also ignore those files. However some of those files are necessary to the deployment in my case. This is strange implicit behavior. Adding something to .gitignore should not change the cloud tooling implicitly.

The fix is to either remove that line from the .gcloudignore or to turn off the feature entirely:

gcloud config set gcloudignore/enabled false