From bbbaa8ed61b4e6b5485aa77cd079ea88acc4b501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 19:03:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cli: no longer diff dev/ or src/

Signed-off-by: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com>
---
 .changeset/big-jeans-love.md             | 5 +++++
 packages/cli/src/commands/plugin/diff.ts | 9 ++-------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/big-jeans-love.md

diff --git a/.changeset/big-jeans-love.md b/.changeset/big-jeans-love.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e97ae15ff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/big-jeans-love.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/cli': patch
+---
+
+The `plugin:diff` command no longer validates the existence of any of the files within `dev/` or `src/`.
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/plugin/diff.ts b/packages/cli/src/commands/plugin/diff.ts
index 6a0127794f..153bd16597 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/plugin/diff.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/plugin/diff.ts
@@ -39,18 +39,13 @@ const fileHandlers = [
     patterns: ['package.json'],
     handler: handlers.packageJson,
   },
-  {
-    // Not all plugins have routes
-    patterns: ['src/routes.ts'],
-    handler: handlers.skip,
-  },
   {
     // make sure files in 1st level of src/ and dev/ exist
-    patterns: ['.eslintrc.js', /^(src|dev)\/[^/]+$/],
+    patterns: ['.eslintrc.js'],
     handler: handlers.exists,
   },
   {
-    patterns: ['README.md', 'tsconfig.json', /^src\//],
+    patterns: ['README.md', 'tsconfig.json', /^src\//, /^dev\//],
     handler: handlers.skip,
   },
 ];