The meta.xml file being associated with a the CSS file only occurs in style-only components. It's possible that IC2 is doing something wrong with those components. It's also possible that the CLI is doing something wrong. Can you please
enable debug logging for metadata retrieval, get a log of this particular issue in action, and send that to
sup...@illuminatedcloud.com for review? I'd like to see what's actually being retrieved.
Regards,
Scott Wells