Microsoft/vscode

Cannot exclude root folders while searching

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#50,638 opened on May 29, 2018

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Description

Testing #50498

  • In a MR workspace, try to exclude root folder using /folder1/ and search. Results are still shown in folder1.

This happens irrespective of setting search.enableSearchProviders"

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Research direction
Investigate the search exclusion logic in VS Code's search provider, focusing on how root folder exclusions are parsed and applied. Look at the code that handles `**/folder1/**` patterns to see why results still appear.
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