TypeScript Version: 2.1.4

Code

/lib /test /.suman /test-src 

if I build this project with tsc and use the outDir option, the .suman directory won't get moved/transpiled, presumably because it starts with a dot .

based on the above project structure, the resulting incorrect build would look like:

/dist /lib /test /test-src 

above we can see that the .suman dir is missing from the test dir

if I rename the .suman directory to suman like so:

/lib /test /suman // renamed from .suman to suman /test-src 

then it will get moved to the outDir, because it no longer starts with a dot .

so the expected result actually happens, which is of course:

/dist /lib /test /suman /test-src 

here is my config, which shows that I want to include my test dir, in the build.

{ "compilerOptions": { "compileOnSave": true, "target": "es5", "noImplicitAny": false, "removeComments": true, "preserveConstEnums": true, "outDir": "dist", "allowJs": true, "allowUnreachableCode": true, "lib": ["es2015", "dom"] }, "include": [ "./**/*" ], "exclude": [ "node_modules" ] } 

Expected behavior:

I would expect it would include files/directories that start with a dot, unless you exclude files/dirs that start with a dot

Actual behavior:

TS/tsc seems to exclude files/dirs that start with a dot by default, which seems very strange, since users could easily specify with a regex to ignore dirs/files that start with a dot!

My question is then, is there a tsconfig.json setting I can use to include the .suman directory with my build?