Include/Exclude filters

[Adequat]

The doc says:
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Exclude files matching the wildcard: '*.*'
Include files matching the wildcard: '*.*'
Specifying both will include ALL files because the "Exclude" filter is above the "Include" filter.
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Then this is not clear about how your filter system works. If this would be a serial filter (the most intuitive one), then all files would be excluded in your example. Because:
#0 all files are traversed and evaluated...
#1 all files are excluded...
#2 ...hence no more files to include!

And even the opposite if All Exclude was in 2nd position after All Include :
#0 all files are traversed and evaluated...
#1 all files are included
#2 all files are excluded...

So, can you please give more details about how the order of filters apply? Thanks.

[TGRMN Software]

Hi Adequat, lower filters in the list overwrites higher ones, that is:

#0 files are traversed and evaluated...
#1 file is excluded
#2 file is included

If the filters were:
Exclude files matching the wildcard: '*.*'
Include files matching the wildcard: '*.xls'

That would include only xls files.
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[Adequat]

So, this means any Exclude filter, placed anywhere before any Include filter, is totaly ignored. Right?

[TGRMN Software]

Every file is processed through the list of filters, from top to bottom, to decide if the file is excluded or not. For instance

filters:
exclude *.txt
include test.*

file test.txt is included
file doc.txt is excluded

filters:
include *.txt
exclude test.*

file test.txt is excluded
file doc.txt is included
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