Synchronizing vendor (composer) files not working all of a sudden?

I'm not sure what I might have done or if it's just circumstantial with a project I've recently opened recently, but:

For some reason, when I try to synchronize a project to one of my web servers, the compare shows my typical vendor directory, but won't traverse down past the root folder.  In other words, PHPStorm is acting like there's no files to compare/synchronize; which there are.

I've even tried commenting out all of my .gitignore rules, to no avail.  Can anyone shed light on what might be happening in this scenario or if there's a setting that may have gotten flipped, unaware to me?

Thanks!

PHPStorm: 2018.1