Why are tags that begin with a . (dot) not written?

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#1

I have a few pages that are tagged “.net”. e.g.

---
title: Updating Blazor PacMan to .NET 5
date: 2020-12-13
status: publish
layout: layouts/post.njk
excerpt: ''
type: post
id: 224
tags:
    - .net
    - 'c#'
tag: []
post_format: []
---

This tag appears in the tag list at Tags, but the physical folder ‘/tags/.net’ does not exist when I look in the download of the actual Netflify deploy.

It does appear when I build locally.

I’m guessing the trouble stems from the tag starting with a dot and I’m guessing it’s a difference between building with Windows (at home) and Linux (at Netlify).

Any help appreciated!

Thank you in advance,

Steve Dunn

#2

I’m assuming it’s because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_file_and_hidden_directory

In Linux, any folder or file starting with a . is treated as hidden which in your case is the folder named .net. So yeah, you might be right about this:

This is how you can change that behaviour: https://github.com/netlify/cli/issues/11#issuecomment-401854074.

It involves using redirects and having an actual folder without the .. So, definitely not the idea solution.

#3

Thanks for the reply.
I’m wondering how tricky it would be to alter the way that the tag folders are written.
Reading them would be easy enough (I think!)