Is there a way to use an EXCLUDE_FILES list?

[behudson]

I've seen the FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE, but it doesn't seem to support multiple regular expressions and does not allow exclusions of varying paths/filenames. Is there a way to support either a list of regular expressions or a simple list of files to exclude?

[ferrarimarco]

Hi @behudson !

Both FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE and FILTER_REGEX_INCLUDE are Bash regular expression, so you should be able to craft a "complex" regex that suits your needs. At this point, there's no support for specifying multiple regular expressions.

You can also check if the linters you're interested in support an ignore mechanism themselves, and use that instead of FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE and FILTER_REGEX_INCLUDE.

[ferrarimarco]

Example: .*(/test/linters/|CHANGELOG.md).*

[behudson]

Thank you for the example. I came up with something similar that seemed to do the trick. Attempting to use the individual linters proved problematic as the different Python linters did not behave well together.
Example: "(^.*file1.*$)|(^.*path1/file2.*$)"