Ignore Files and Violations

Introduction

There are files you do not want to include in the analysis done by Code Inspector, either because they are not useful to be analyzed or you just do not want to have them processed.

There are several ways that Code Inspector ignores files, we are explaining each of them.

Default .gitignore file

Code Inspector processes your .gitignore files and automatically ignore all files specified in that directory. It does not process or parse regular expression, our engine ignores files and directory specified by their full name.

# The directory directory_to_ignore will be ignored
directory_to_ignore

Optional .ci-ignore file

You can also add a .ci-ignore file in your codebase. This file is exactly like a .gitignore and specific to Code Inspector. Put here all the files and directories that you want Code Inspector to ignore.

Note: File and directory names are relative to the project root directory.

Note: You should not put the starting '/' character in the list of files/directories to ignore

All files and directories specified in that files will also not count towards your slocs count. In other words, if your account has too many lines of code, a good way to reduce the number of lines of code is to add files/directory in that file.

You need to specify the full name of the file in the .ci-ignore files.

# The directory directory_to_ignore will be ignored
directory_to_ignore

Using regular expressions

You can use the same expression than you use in a shell in order to ignore files.

For example, if you have the following directories

• foo/bar/baz
• foo/baz/baz
• foo/bla/bli

With the following content of .ci-ignore:

# The following expression will ignore foo/bar/baz and foo/baz/baz
foo/*/baz

Then, foo/bar/baz and foo/baz/baz will be removed while foo/bla/bli will be removed.

Note: always specify the relative path, and remember that your path should never start with /.

File configured in the User Interface

You can also ignore paths in the project configuration, as shown below, by entering paths separated by the character ;.

Note: You should not put the starting '/' character in the list of files/directories to ignore

When ignoring files and violations using project preferences, issues are filtered when being surfaced through the API. In other words, these files and directories are still analyzed but are rather filtered in the User Interface. Therefore, directories specified in the configuration still count as analyzed source lines of code.