ExperienceBundle changes not detected if outside of main/default folder.

[oleg-underscore-r]

Issue verification check

• Is the current repository fully deployable at the commit SHA provided with the 'from' parameter of the command?

What is the problem?

ExperienceBundle changes not detected when experiences are outside of main/default folder. As soon as I add it back it's working as expected.

What is the parameter and the value you used with it?

$ sf sgd source delta --from sandbox01-v20260106.29 --to HEAD --output-dir delta --generate-delta --source-dir pkg-main --include-file .sgdInclude

What is the expected result?

• Delta package should include ExperienceBundle metadata type with member Acme_Customer_Self_Service1 (or equivalent path-based member).
• Delta output folder should contain pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/ and its contents (site-meta.xml, config/, routes/, brandingSets/, variations/, themes/, etc.).
• package.xml should list ExperienceBundle type with the changed experience(s).

What is the actual result?

• Delta package includes DigitalExperienceBundle (for Acme_Enrollment1 under digitalExperiences/site/) but not ExperienceBundle.
• No files from pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/ appear in the delta output.
• package.xml has no ExperienceBundle type; only DigitalExperienceBundle is present.
• git diff --name-status shows many added files under pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/ (e.g. Acme_Customer_Self_Service1.site-meta.xml, Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/routes/accountManagement.json, etc.), but sgd does not include them.

Steps to reproduce

1. Use a project with packageDirectories where experiences live under a non-default path (e.g. pkg-main/main/portals).
2. Add or modify ExperienceBundle content under pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/<ExperienceName>/.
3. Run: sf sgd source delta --from <commit-without-changes> --to HEAD --output-dir delta --generate-delta --source-dir pkg-main --include-file .sgdInclude
4. Observe that ExperienceBundle is not in the delta; only DigitalExperienceBundle (if present under digitalExperiences/) is included.

Execution context

Darwin Kernel Version 25.3.0: Wed Jan 28 20:48:41 PST 2026; root:xnu-12377.81.4~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6041
11.9.0
v25.6.1
git version 2.53.0
@salesforce/cli/2.124.7 darwin-arm64 node-v25.6.1
sfdx-git-delta 6.31.0

Operating System: macOS (Darwin 25.3.0, ARM64)

npm version: 11.9.0

node version: v25.6.1

git version: 2.53.0

sf version: 2.124.7

sgd plugin version: 6.31.0

More information (optional)

Project structure

• sfdx-project.json packageDirectories: pkg-main/main/portals, pkg-main/main/default (default), pkg-main/main/omni, pkg-main/main/sf-permissions
• Experiences location: pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/ (not under main/default/experiences)

.sgdInclude contents

pkg-main/main/portals/experiences
pkg-main/main/

git diff --name-status (experiences folder)

$ git diff --name-status --no-renames sandbox01-v20260106.29 HEAD -- pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/

A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1.site-meta.xml
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/brandingSets/customerAccountPortal.json
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/brandingSets/standard.json
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/config/acmeCustomerSelfService.json
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/config/languages.json
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/config/loginAppPage.json
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/config/mainAppPage.json
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/config/nativeConfig.json
A pkg-main/main/portals/experiences/Acme_Customer_Self_Service1/routes/accountManagement.json
... (many more)

[scolladon]

Hi @oleg-underscore-r !

Thanks for raising this issue and thanks for contributing in making this project better!

SGD is not tied to the packageDirectories it looks everywhere in the repo (respecting the source-dir if set)
And we have test about this use case (unit, integration and e2e)

Could you try using the latest-rc version and let me know if you still have the same issue ?

If you stil have please help me reproduce the issue locally.
You can either describe what commit content I should create inside a repository, or you could also fork the reproduction playground, create a branch, write the necessary commit to reproduce and share that branch here.
And give me the commands to run with sgd to reproduce the issue.

[oleg-underscore-r]

@scolladon - thank you for taking a look. Here is a PR scolladon/sfdx-git-delta-reproduction-playground#11

There are two folders - sgd/main and sgd portals. I tagged initial commit before adding metadata with "devint-v1". Then added apex and exp bundle. As you can see only apex and site xml are added in the output.

Here is the diff command I ran

sf sgd source delta --from devint-v1 --to HEAD --output-dir output --generate-delta --source-dir sgd

[oleg-underscore-r]

If you move everything from portal to the sgd/main/default and commit, then sgd it picks it up.

[scolladon]

Thanks for the reproduction playground.

Do you reproduce the issue with that latest-rc version ?

[oleg-underscore-r]

yes

(issue_1225_expcloud) ✗ sf plugins code-analyzer 5.9.0 community 3.3.48 (3.3.48) lightning-dev 4.5.3 packaging 2.25.5 sfdmu 5.6.0 sfdx-git-delta 6.32.3 (latest-rc) sfdx-hardis 6.26.2

[scolladon]

Thank you very much for all those information, very helpful.

The root cause is the portals folder matching another kind of metadata before matching the ExperienceBundle...
I fix it soon, stay tuned !

[oleg-underscore-r]

oh wow :) I thought I was going crazy. tried all kind of folder structures and it was all about the name! Thank you for the quick response!

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