Directory Filtering using a Path View Filter

[martinm]

I've been trying to familiarize myself with the directory filtering improvements in ExamDiff Pro 15.0.

For this I used two directories with locally cloned Git repositories.

When comparing the two directories, the directory comparison filter :*\.git\* worked as expected. The files in the .git directory are excluded from the comparison and are not shown in the results view.

I then tried to filter out the same .git directory (with the directory comparison filter turned off) in the results view using a path view filter. The include patterns were set to the default value of *. I tried using the following patterns as exclude patterns: *\.git\* or .git\* or .git\. All three exclude patterns had no effect. Using *.sql as exclude patterns to exclude files with the SQL extension, however, worked as expected.

Am I doing something wrong here? Or is it not possible to filter directories using the path view filter from the results view?

[psguru]

I then tried to filter out the same .git directory (with the directory comparison filter turned off) in the results view using a path view filter. The include patterns were set to the default value of *. I tried using the following patterns as exclude patterns: *\.git\* or .git\* or .git\. All three exclude patterns had no effect. Using *.sql as exclude patterns to exclude files with the SQL extension, however, worked as expected.

I need more details on your setup. Please provide relevant screenshots.

[martinm]

I'll try to explain the behavior using a publicly available Git repository from GitHub and some screenshots so you can reproduce it.

First, I clone the Git repository twice into two different directories:

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git clone https://github.com/nigelpoulton/TheK8sBook.git TheK8sBook1
git clone https://github.com/nigelpoulton/TheK8sBook.git TheK8sBook2

I then created a new session with all options reset to default and compared the two directories. The result looks like this after switching to flat mode:

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The next two screenshots show my (unsuccessful) attempt to filter out the .git directory and its contents in the results view using a path view filter:

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[martinm]

The next two screenshots show how I was able to successfully filter out files with the YML extension from the results view by using *.yml as an exclude pattern:

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Interestingly, a quick path view filter to show only the files in the .git directory seems to work:

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[psguru]

Thank you for your detailed analysis. The fix will appear in the next build of version 15.