If filter.add or triggers.add file is missing all triggers/filters are removed about dominator HOT 3 CLOSED

Actually, it's intended behaviour. What you propose would prevent the ability to create images with sparse filters.

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Ah ok, I remember reading about sparse images in the docs are just went and refreshed my memory. It would be nice if you had to explicitly tell dominator that you wanted a sparse image with maybe an entry in the manifest file such as "Sparse": true but the change for this would be breaking.

It seems like having an empty triggers file and having no triggers.add do the same thing as far as I can tell. Although if you have to have the filter.add file in order to not make it a sparse image it would seem requiring triggers.add makes things more consistent.

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While the filters and triggers seem similar, they different in an important way, so I don't see a way to make their configuration exactly the same.

A filter is a list of exclusions when patching. An empty filter means exclude nothing. A missing filter has a special meaning to not delete files, but has no exclusions.

A trigger is simply a list of actions. An empty list of triggers is the same as no triggers. There isn't an extra magical state like with filters.

Closing, as I don't want to introduce a breaking change over this minor wart.

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