Bug: chart/*values.yaml in .gitignore causing default values to get lost

Bug

chart/*values.yaml in .gitignore causing default values to get lost

I think the addition of chart/*values.yaml getting added to .gitignore (commit e75fc5d1 on JUL26) resulted in some strange behavior of default values getting lost when deploying Big Bang. I suspect possibly somewhere in the FluxCD stack the .gitignore file is getting interpreted and somehow causing default values from chart/values.yaml to get ignored?

I tested this out by:

1. Deleting the bigbang namespace in my Kubernetes cluster.
2. I created a mirrored Big Bang repository, set the default branch to master
3. I removed chart/*values.yaml from .gitignore,
4. Updated kustomization.yaml in the customer template to point to the mirrored repository
5. Re-deployed Big Bang pointing to the mirrored repository, and the deployment of Big Bang went smoothly, no default values getting lost.
6. I then deleted the bigbang namespace again in my Kubernetes cluster.
7. Put back chart/*values.yaml into .gitignore in the master branch
8. Re-deployed Big Bang (still pointing to the mirrored repository), and default values were getting lost.

Some related issues that were opened and I've also experienced can be viewed here:

• https://repo1.dso.mil/platform-one/big-bang/customers/template/-/issues/13
• https://repo1.dso.mil/platform-one/big-bang/bigbang/-/issues/600
• https://repo1.dso.mil/platform-one/big-bang/bigbang/-/issues/607
• https://repo1.dso.mil/platform-one/big-bang/bigbang/-/issues/608

^ Removing chart/*values.yaml from .gitignore in the mirrored repository had addressed the above issues for me.