Path filtering based on changes in "root" directory of project

[rajnishpadda]

Describe Request: Path filtering based on changes in "root" directory of project

Examples: With current version of path-filtering orb, I cannot specify root directory mapping and trigger selective job in work flow. I tried using various combinations of specifying mapping e.g. "./.*"

Intent here is to triggered selective jobs based on changes in root directory like it does for subdirectories in the project.

Supporting Documentation Links:

[rajnishpadda]

version: 2.1
setup: true

orbs:
  path-filtering: circleci/[email protected]

# Define the jobs we want to run for this project
workflows:
  setup:
    jobs:
      - path-filtering/filter:
          name: Check-updated-files
          base-revision: my-branch
          config-path: .circleci/continue_config.yml
          #Syntax: <regex path-to-test> <parameter-name> <parameter-value-to-set>
          mapping: |
            packages/abc/.* build-abc true
            packages/xyz/.* build-xyz true
            packages/shared/.* build-all true
            packages/bin/.* build-all true
            /home/circleci/project/.* build-all true 

For subdirectories patterns packages/[abc,xyz]/.* , jobs are triggering. However if I change any file under repo's ROOT directory, jobs do not trigger.

For specifying root mapping pattern I have used following

.*
./.*
..*
~/project/.*
/home/circleci/project/.*

None of above expressions works to compare and trigger jobs for changed files in ROOT path of repo.

[acornford-droneup]

bump. This is a result of some forced regex.
for those who run into this and need a temp fix as of @1.0.0 change ./.foo foo-var true -> .*.foo foo-var foo