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"How to get ohloh to ignore some files?"

Hi,

I have a project which is quite small, and mostly PHP. But since I include a Javascript library for download, the project registers as about 60% javascript, which is not a fair representation of the project really...

Is it possible to somehow have ohloh ignore some files? I'm thinking of a .ohlohignore file or something. Unless there's already a way?

Nigel McNie

about 6 years ago

Hi nigel,

This a fairly common request, and it's high on our to-do list. We'd like to do something like you've suggested, and use something like a robots.txt file to specify ignored directories.

Robin Luckey

about 6 years ago

I'd prefer not to have to add a proprietary tag to the repository just for Ohloh.

It would be better if there was some way of specifying exclusions (by wildcard or regex) from the analysis.

I could have used this for the MapGuide and FDO projects, each of which maintains large chunks of external libraries (at fixed revisions) in their repositories. Of course, these would be better as external references, but...

Jason Birch

about 6 years ago

Hi guys,

I'd like to share some additional thoughts on this future feature.

I think we'll start by adding the ability to edit the 'exclusion' directories directly from Ohloh. This should address JBirch's concerns, but would also address the cases where the repository is not directly editable by the project maintainers. We could then build an additional feature to parse/understand a specific ohloh.txt directives. Any further idea/concerns are appreciated!

Jason Allen

about 6 years ago

Hi Jason,

one or the other way i would be fine with it. Just hope there will be something. Expecially PHP project tend to use alot of frameworks and libraries now which we wish to exclude. Thank you for your great work

Best regards

Carsten

Right now the main issue with Audacity is that Ohloh is counting third-party libraries that we have forked and include as part of our own CVS tree, but they aren't really our own code.