update filter and consolidate logic

Signed-off-by: mbruhin <47482924+mbruhin@users.noreply.github.com>

plugins/scaffolder-node/src/actions/index.ts

@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ export {
   createBranch,
   cloneRepo,
 } from './gitHelpers';
-export { parseRepoUrl, getRepoSourceDirectory } from './util';
+export { parseRepoUrl, getRepoSourceDirectory, filterGitFiles } from './util';

plugins/scaffolder-node/src/actions/util.test.ts

@@ -244,4 +244,26 @@ describe('scaffolder action utils', () => {
       });
     });
   });
+
+  describe('filterGitFiles', () => {
+    it('should filter .git directory and its contents but keep other files', () => {
+      // Import the function to test
+      const { filterGitFiles } = require('./util');
+
+      // Should filter out .git directory
+      expect(filterGitFiles('.git')).toBe(false);
+
+      // Should filter out .git directory in subdirectories
+      expect(filterGitFiles('subdir/.git')).toBe(false);
+
+      // Should filter out files inside .git directory
+      expect(filterGitFiles('.git/config')).toBe(false);
+      expect(filterGitFiles('subdir/.git/config')).toBe(false);
+
+      // Should keep .gitignore and other non-.git-directory files
+      expect(filterGitFiles('.gitignore')).toBe(true);
+      expect(filterGitFiles('src/components/GitHubIcon.js')).toBe(true);
+      expect(filterGitFiles('.github/workflows/ci.yml')).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
 });

plugins/scaffolder-node/src/actions/util.ts

@@ -186,3 +186,12 @@ export const parseSchemas = (
     outputSchema: action.schema.output,
   };
 };
+
+/**
+ * Filter function to exclude the .git directory and its contents
+ * while keeping other files like .gitignore
+ * @public
+ */
+export function filterGitFiles(path: string): boolean {
+  return !(path.endsWith('.git') || path.includes('.git/'));
+}