From 12bea639ebd5a0a9dbaed87bad255faeed83ed89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondrej Samohel <ondrej@samohel.cz>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 17:25:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] preserve mb file type during publish

---
 pype/plugins/maya/publish/collect_scene.py | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pype/plugins/maya/publish/collect_scene.py b/pype/plugins/maya/publish/collect_scene.py
index 089019f2d3d..3f5760fd7b9 100644
--- a/pype/plugins/maya/publish/collect_scene.py
+++ b/pype/plugins/maya/publish/collect_scene.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-from maya import cmds
-
 import pyblish.api
 import avalon.api
 import os
@@ -42,8 +40,8 @@ def process(self, context):
         })
 
         data['representations'] = [{
-            'name': 'ma',
-            'ext': 'ma',
+            'name': ext.lstrip("."),
+            'ext': ext.lstrip("."),
             'files': file,
             "stagingDir": folder,
         }]