Nitro build deletes all app files with empty publicDir

[itpropro]

Environment

Nitro: latest Node: 16.17.1

Reproduction

nitro.config.ts:

import { defineNitroConfig } from 'nitropack'

export default defineNitroConfig({
  output: { dir: '.output', serverDir: '.output/server', publicDir: '' },
})

Describe the bug

I only have a api folder and don't want an empty public folder to be generated on every build. I played around with the configurations, and nothing fixed my problem, but I recognized that when setting the publicDir entry in the output configuration entry to an empty string, it deletes your whole application on nitro build. Every folder and file in your nitro application folder except .output and .nitro is deleted.

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