[QUESTION] Can you use pattern matching in targets.exclude?

[thecristidima]

We would like to exclude all test projects in our repo and tried the following:

version: 3

paths:
  only:
    - ./Code

  exclude:
    - ./Code/**/*Tests

but we get the following error:

Aeson exception:
Error in $.paths.exclude[6]: InvalidRelDir "./**/*Tests"

Taking a look at https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli/blob/master/docs/references/files/fossa-yml.md#fossayml it seems that we can use pattern matching for paths, but it's not used under paths.only/exclude, so I'm not quite sure if it works or not.

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[ryanlink]

Hi @thecristidima - while fossa-cli provides mechanisms to include or exclude entire directories during analysis, it does not currently support the use of glob patterns for more granular control over specific files or subdirectories.

The paths.exclude filter operates at the directory level and does not support glob patterns for matching files or subdirectories. We'll take a note to improve this in our documentation!

[ryanlink]

see also #968