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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.

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'

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.

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.

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

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

It turns out I need this for a couple of projects:

• 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 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.

Sure, --cp looks good to me.

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.

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.