why collectstatic won't copy my static files?

Question

I have MyApp/static/MyApp directory

When I run ./manage.py collectstatic, I expect the MyApp directory be copied to STATIC_ROOT but it doesn\'t

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Answer 1

That just happened to me and I accidentally put the app's static files directory in the .gitignore file. So on my local machine it got collected just fine, but in production the static files were actually missing (gitignored).