Exclude a directory in the top level by name, but don't exclude others with the same name?

[vroad]

For example, how can I exclude a directory named "foo" in the top level directory, but include the same named directories found elsewhere?

EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES are excluded at any nested level, not just the directory found in the top level directory.
I'm not sure FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE support regex special characters like ^.

MegaLinter config like this didn't work for me.

FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: ^foo/
# FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: (?m)^foo/

FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: foo

This works but excludes foo at any nested level.

[nvuillam]

Please can you try (^foo) ? :)
it is possible that to keep ascending compatibility with v6, who used files with absolute path, something might be wrong

If that's the case, we could add a REGEX_STRICT config that would disable the "or"

[vroad]

(^foo) didn't work either. Since this regex lacks trailing /, doesn't this also exclude other directories whose name starting with foo, like foo1/some_file, foo2/another_file, etc?

FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: (^foo)