tfignore file not ignoring files with asp.net 5 project

Question

While working with ASP.NET 5 projects using TFVC and Visual Studio 2015, we have noticed that adding a .tfignore file that tries to exclude folders and files in the wwwroot directory are still showing up in Team Explorer as Pending Changes. Since the CSS and JavaScript files don't need to be checked in (they are being generated from SASS and TypeScript sources) we would like them excluded. We have added a simple .tfignore file to our project that just has an entry of \wwwroot (we figured we would start by making it as simple as possible and just ignoring everything in the wwwroot directory) and the file does not seem to be recognized since items in the wwwroot folder still show up in our Pending Changes window. We have also tried to follow the steps listed at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms245454.aspx#tfignore under the "Create and use a .tfignore file" section and while that added entries to a global .tfignore file, the directory that should have been excluded was still showing up in Pending Changes. Is the .tfignore file supposed to work with ASP.NET 5 projects? When searching for a solution, I came across articles talking about the .tfignore file not excluding things from Solution Explorer (which I would not expect to be how things worked), but nothing seemed to mention anything around TFVC and the .tfignore.

We are working with a Local Workspace in TFVC and have not ever checked in files for the wwwroot directory (we are all manually making sure to exclude them when doing checkins, but would be nice if it would happen automatically with .tfignore file).

Answer 1

This is a known issue with ASP.NET5, please refer to this link for details: https://github.com/aspnet/Tooling/issues/18