Any easy way to eliminate files from being indexed / counted

[NathanaelA]

I have no interest in having the "license", ".gitignore" and ".npmignore", and ".json" counted in the repo sizes, is there a easy way to have it ignore these file types.

[boyter]

For the moment not LICENSE, but I will add that in.

For the others, change the searchcode.properties file line,

binary_extension_black_list=PRECANNEDBLACKLIST

to

binary_extension_black_list=PRECANNEDBLACKLIST,gitignore,npmignore,json

Then rebuild the index using "Recrawl & Rebuild Indexes" in the admin screen.

[boyter]

Just to note, that will exclude them from being indexed as well. The count is based on the index so thats what this will actually achieve.

I have a branch to add reports to searchcode where these sort of things would be controlled at runtime, but that is probably a major release away at this point.

[NathanaelA]

Yeah, I don't want them to show up at all; they really are pointless files for searching at least in the eco-system I'm working with. ;-)

[boyter]

That will do it then. The blacklist is only by file extention at the moment, but the fact that is would pick up .gitignore and .npmignore is more of a hack.

TODO - Add filename filter.

[boyter]

Going to close this and merge with #105 as it is the same issue.