How to ignore the folder using the exclusions file

[balajimandava-eaton]

./abc/app/src/JSON/test.hpp;ALL
./abc/app/src/REST/URI;ALL

File level I am able to exclude.

how to exclude the folder and how if we declare the folder will be excluded from the run.

In the duplications logic I am able to logic. Please let me know how that can be done or is there any workaround for the same.

[balajimandava-eaton]

@terryyin - Please can you look into it.

[terryyin]

-x EXCLUDE, --exclude EXCLUDE
Exclude files that match the pattern. * matches everything, ? matches any
single character, "./folder/*" exclude everything in the folder
recursively. Multiple patterns can be specified. Don't forget to add ""
around the pattern.

And also, if there is a .gitignore file in the folder it will also ignore files ignored by git.

[balajimandava-eaton]

@terryyin - As I want to declare in the text file and when I declare in the text file then the ignoring the folder is not working.

I tried with the -x then it is working within the github action however I want to try through the text file.

./abc/app/src/tes/test.hpp;ALL
"./abc/app/src/test/URI/*";ALL

File "/home/runner/work/_actions/etn-ccis/edge-devops-actions-complexity-lizard/ci/EMBDO-419-PR-Gating-threshold-comparison/scripts/GenLizardHTML.py", line 90, in create_filtered_csv
file_path, function_name = line.split(';')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I am declaring in the text file where the file within the lizard complexity it is able to ignore the file however the folder is not able to remove.