exclude files or dir

[saar-win12]

hey,
it is possible to use it with exclude dir?
like any why do what you need to do?

  - uses: dorny/paths-filter@v2
    id: filter
    with:
      filters: |
        src:
          - 'src/${{ matrix.services }}/**'
        ignore:
          - 'src/a/**'
          - 'src/b/**'
          - 'src/c/**'

steps.filter.outputs.src == 'true' || steps.filter.outputs.ignore == 'true'

[Obi-Dann]

Ignoring is supporting by picomatch, so should be possible in theory?
See the ignore option - https://github.com/micromatch/picomatch#picomatch-options

[Obi-Dann]

I ended up forking and replacing picomatch with micromatch https://github.com/AurorNZ/paths-filter. Not sure there's an interest of creating a PR for this repo because it's a serious breaking change
With micromatch, it's possible to ignore paths in a similar way as in .gitignore
for example the following matches all .ts files excluding .test.ts files

src:
      - 'src/**/*.ts'
      - '!src/**/*.test.ts'

[cpglsn]

I've worked around this with an extra bash step:

- name: Check if other files have changed
  run: |
    if [ $(echo '${{ steps.filter.outputs.all_files }}' | jq .[] | sed '/src\/a\/\|src\/b\/\|src\/c\//d' | wc -l ) -gt 0 ]; then
      echo "OTHER_FILES_CHANGED=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
    else
      echo "OTHER_FILES_CHANGED=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
    fi

- name: Do something
  if: steps.filter.outputs.src == 'true' && env.OTHER_FILES_CHANGED == 'true'

You need list-files: 'json' in the dorny/paths-filter step and jq to be available in your runner.

The idea is that you get the list of changed files, and whatever line match your sed expression gets removed from such list (the ignored files). If no lines are left, it means you only had ignored files been modified (OTHER_FILES_CHANGED=false), otherwise not ignored files were modified (OTHER_FILES_CHANGED=true). Then you check in the if statement of the next job which one happened.