html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-751826749,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,751826749,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc1MTgyNjc0OQ==,9599,simonw,2020-12-28T18:49:21Z,2020-12-28T18:49:21Z,OWNER,"That `--exec` could help solve all sorts of other problems too, like needing to `apt-get install` extra packages or download files from somewhere using `wget`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-751826621,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,751826621,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc1MTgyNjYyMQ==,9599,simonw,2020-12-28T18:48:51Z,2020-12-28T18:48:51Z,OWNER,"I could make `--include` work if I also had a mechanism for running some shell commands inside the container at the end of the build - which users could then use to move files into the correct place.

    datasette publish cloudrun my.db --include src/ --exec 'mv /app/src/config.yml /etc/conf/config.yml'","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-747070709,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,747070709,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc0NzA3MDcwOQ==,9599,simonw,2020-12-16T22:09:15Z,2020-12-16T22:09:15Z,OWNER,"The other way this could work is passing a single argument - the file (or directory) to be copied in - and assuming it should always go in the `/app` root. Something like:

    datasette publish cloudrun my.db --include src/ --include dogsheep-beta.yml

Which would add `/app/src/...` and `/app/dogsheep-beta.yml`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-747068624,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,747068624,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc0NzA2ODYyNA==,9599,simonw,2020-12-16T22:04:42Z,2020-12-16T22:04:42Z,OWNER,"I can't just use `COPY /path/to/blah.yml /app` in the `Dockerfile` because it runs on the Google Cloud Build servers, not on the user's laptop - so I need to first copy the files they specify to that temporary directory that gets uploaded to the cloud, then rewrite the `COPY` lines in the `Dockerfile` to copy from there.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-747067864,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,747067864,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc0NzA2Nzg2NA==,9599,simonw,2020-12-16T22:02:55Z,2020-12-16T22:02:55Z,OWNER,"But since we're already running `COPY . /app` anything that's made it into the temporary directory will get copied into `/app`.

But... I feel the usability of the command will be better if users can use absolute paths on the `target` side:

    datasette publish cloudrun my.db --cp dogsheep-beta.yml /app","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-747066629,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,747066629,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc0NzA2NjYyOQ==,9599,simonw,2020-12-16T21:59:58Z,2020-12-16T22:00:48Z,OWNER,"Note that `datasette publish cloudrun` uses a working directory of `/app` - so users will need to copy their files into `/app` if that's where they need to live.

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/17cbbb1f7f230b39650afac62dd16476626001b5/datasette/utils/__init__.py#L348-L357","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-747059277,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,747059277,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc0NzA1OTI3Nw==,9599,simonw,2020-12-16T21:43:52Z,2020-12-16T21:43:52Z,OWNER,"It turns out I need this for a couple of projects:

- [datasette-ripgrep](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ripgrep) needs to ship a whole bunch of source code files up in a known location. I worked around this with a nasty hack involving `--static` but it would be better if I wasn't doing that.
- [dogsheep-beta](https://github.com/dogsheep/dogsheep-beta) uses an additional `dogsheep-beta.yml` configuration file in the project root (a sibling to `metadata.yml`) which needs to be included when publishing - see https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io/issues/21#issuecomment-747058067

I want this for `datasette publish cloudrun`, not just for `datasette package`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-592399256,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,592399256,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU5MjM5OTI1Ng==,9599,simonw,2020-02-28T08:09:12Z,2020-02-28T08:09:12Z,OWNER,"Sure, `--cp` looks good to me.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-590593247,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,590593247,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU5MDU5MzI0Nw==,141844,aviflax,2020-02-24T23:02:52Z,2020-02-24T23:02:52Z,NONE,"> Design looks great to me.

Excellent, thanks!

> I'm not keen on two letter short versions (`-cp`) - I'd rather either have a single character or no short form at all.

Hmm, well, anyone running `datasette package` is probably at least somewhat familiar with UNIX CLIs… so how about `--cp` as a middle ground?

```shell
$ datasette package --cp /the/source/path /the/target/path data.db
```

I think I like it. Easy to remember!","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-590539805,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,590539805,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU5MDUzOTgwNQ==,9599,simonw,2020-02-24T20:44:59Z,2020-02-24T20:45:08Z,OWNER,"Design looks great to me.

I'm not keen on two letter short versions (`-cp`) - I'd rather either have a single character or no short form at all. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-590405736,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,590405736,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU5MDQwNTczNg==,141844,aviflax,2020-02-24T16:06:27Z,2020-02-24T16:06:27Z,NONE,"> So yeah - if you're happy to design this I think it would be worth us adding.

Great! I’ll give it a go.



> Small design suggestion: allow `--copy` to be applied multiple times…

Makes a ton of sense, will do.

> Also since Click arguments can take multiple options I don't think you need to have the `:` in there - although if it better matches Docker's own UI it might be more consistent to have it.

Great point. I double checked the docs for `docker cp` and in that context the colon is used to delimit a container and a path, while spaces are used to separate the source and target.

The usage string is:

```text
docker cp [OPTIONS] CONTAINER:SRC_PATH DEST_PATH|-
docker cp [OPTIONS] SRC_PATH|- CONTAINER:DEST_PATH
```

so in fact it’ll be more consistent to use a space to delimit the source and destination paths, like so:

```shell
$ datasette package --copy /the/source/path /the/target/path data.db
```

and I suppose the short-form version of the option should be `cp` like so:

```shell
$ datasette package -cp /the/source/path /the/target/path data.db
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-589908912,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,589908912,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU4OTkwODkxMg==,9599,simonw,2020-02-22T02:38:21Z,2020-02-22T02:38:21Z,OWNER,"Interesting feature suggestion.

My initial instinct was that this would be better handled using the layered nature of Docker - so build a Docker image with `datasette package` and then have a separate custom script which takes that image, copies in the extra data and outputs a new image.

But... `datasette package` is already meant to be more convenient than messing around with Docker by hand like this - so actually having a `--copy` option like you describe here feels like it's within scope of what `datasette package` is meant to do.

So yeah - if you're happy to design this I think it would be worth us adding.

Small design suggestion: allow `--copy` to be applied multiple times, so you can do something like this:

    datasette package \
        --copy ~/project/templates /templates \
        --copy ~/project/README.md /README.md \
        data.db

Also since Click arguments can take multiple options I don't think you need to have the `:` in there - although if it better matches Docker's own UI it might be more consistent to have it.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,