Should I include my .aws-sam file in my repository?

Question

Quick question for anyone that is using AWS SAM to deploy their microservices in AWS. Do you include your .aws-sam files into your repositories? Or do you gitignore this directory and sub directories?

Answer 1

No, you should not revision control the .aws-sam folder or its subfolders.

Add them to .gitignore, for example as follows:

# SAM default build folder
.aws-sam/

These folders contain intermediate and output files and will, for example, include Python packages, Node modules and other undesirables. None of these should be committed.

Answer 2

You don't need to include the .aws-sam directory in your repository.

The content of this directory are the artifacts outputted from your sam build command, and can always be recreated.