[PATCH v2 2/4] ci(gitlab,windows): preserve exclusions during dependency setup

From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2026, 20:01 UTC
Message-ID: <19a4d93181c6868c71875c6dae581c3cfa6ddef2.1790280113.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2233.v2.git.1790280113.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Creating .git/info/exclude as a file with `New-Item` and `-Force` truncates existing contents.

When install-dependencies.ps1 follows install-sdk.ps1, this discards the latter's /git-sdk exclusion and causes ci/lib.sh to reject SDK files as unignored build artifacts.

Assisted-by: GPT-6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 ci/install-dependencies.ps1 | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.ps1 b/ci/install-dependencies.ps1
index 8c68fb0cfc..f6868dc670 100755
--- a/ci/install-dependencies.ps1
+++ b/ci/install-dependencies.ps1
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ $RustVersion = '1.96.0'
 
 New-Item -Path $DownloadDirectory -ItemType Directory -Force | Out-Null
 New-Item -Path .git/info -ItemType Directory -Force | Out-Null
-New-Item -Path .git/info/exclude -ItemType File -Force | Out-Null
+if (-not (Test-Path .git/info/exclude)) {
+    New-Item -Path .git/info/exclude -ItemType File | Out-Null
+}
 Add-Content -Path .git/info/exclude -Value "/$DownloadDirectory"
 
 function Get-Installer {

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