Improve path exclusion
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 39
- Forks
- 31
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
## Description
Currently path exclusion is very raw and one could argue that incomplete. There's a few issues to solve here:
- [ ] Path exclusion currently supports directories rather than filenames. It'd be useful to be able to also skip certain filenames if specified in the `-exclude` flag.
- [ ] Potentially support a regex or
## Code detail
https://github.com/elastic/go-licenser/blob/master/main.go#L199-L207
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading main.go lines 199-207 and tracing how the -exclude flag is parsed and applied. Review the existing path-exclusion behavior and determine the expected filename support; the regex idea is only proposed, so its scope and acceptance criteria need clarification before implementation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100