Issues with base build directory during deploys

[dimxasnewfrozen]

All of a sudden my builds/deploys are not respecting the base build directory.

My deploy logs used to look like:
9:20:11 AM: Finished fetching cache in 875.520474ms
9:20:11 AM: Starting to prepare the repo for build
9:20:11 AM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/master
9:20:12 AM: No build command found, continuing to publishing
9:20:12 AM: Starting to deploy site from ‘demo’
9:20:12 AM: Creating deploy tree
9:20:12 AM: Creating deploy upload records

Now they look like:
8:40:35 AM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/master
8:40:36 AM: No build command found, continuing to publishing
8:40:36 AM: Starting to deploy site from ‘’
8:40:36 AM: Creating deploy tree
8:40:37 AM: Creating deploy upload records

Notice that it’s now not using the ‘demo’ directory. The deploy settings still show ‘demo’ as the base build directory and I haven’t actually changed anything.

I wonder if something changed recently or this is a known issue?

Thanks

[jen]

Hey @dimxasnewfrozen,
That is definitely unintended and looks like a bug to me! I will get that filed internally. In the meantime, you can try one of these two options:

1. In your build dashboard here Netlify App, click “Edit settings” and add / to the Publish directory.

   It will look strange, like this:
   

   

   But it should get your deploys working.

2. The other option is to add a netlify.toml file in your repository’s root directory that looks like this:

   # netlify.toml
   [build]
      base = "demo/"
      publish = "/"   
   

Let us know if that helps and we will definitely update this thread as we learn more about that bug!

[jen]

We fixed this! You can read more about the change over here → Breaking change: Fixing the default publish directory in monorepo configurations