Executables are not found if they are inside folders listed in VS Code files.exclude option

[deitry]

I have test executables inside build/. I added this folder to files.exclude in order to hide it from explorer tree, but my test executables are also become hidden. Executables are not shown even if I pass relative or absolute path instead of globbing pattern.

Is there a possibility to resolve executables pattern even if it intersects with 'files.exclude'?

[matepek]

I'm using the findFiles endpoint to query files. According to the documentation if the second parameter is null, it should not use the default exclusion pattern. I interpret this that it should work, because I am passing null as second parameter.

I might misinterpret the documentation or there is vscode bug.

[deitry]

Thanks for the quick reply!
I found related issue: microsoft/vscode#48674
It seems that files.exclude IS default exclusion path.

I guess the easiest way to have both features would be to add exclude option to this extension which would be passed instead of null.

[matepek]

Nore that “undefined” and “null” are different values in JavaScript.
Since you are talking about “undefined”, you might missed that. If not then I am missing something, please explain what do you mean.

[deitry]

I'm bad in JS so I talk only about files detection dependency on files.exclude option. undefined is discussed in the VS Code issue which I suppose to be related.

I guess this issue could be called a feature request to have independent exclude configuration entry.

[matepek]

Disagree:

When undefined only default excludes will apply, when null no excludes will apply.

(See doc)
According to the documentation null would work, and I using it. So if it is not working it is a vscode bug related to null, not undefined.

[deitry]

Oh, I get it now.

[deitry]

microsoft/vscode@c467419

When null, no search excludes will apply, but files.exclude will still apply.

This is current behaviour, but I hope there would be discussion on changing it:
microsoft/vscode#77813

[matepek]

For default exclude there is undefined value.

They reopened your issue 👍

I will close this if you don't mind and hope that vscode fixes its API.