[Qt-creator] Search: files on filesystem, possible to ignore paths?

[eike.ziller at nokia.com]

On 24 Apr 2012, at 02:58, ext Campbell Barton wrote:

> Hi, I've been doing some refactoring recently which requires searching
> all files (so I catch cases of function use for other platforms),
> 
> But ran into the problem that ".svn" dirs are being searched  too
> which is fairly annoying (changing their contents by accident is bad,
> generally causes disk thrashing, and clutters search results).
> 
> It would be really nice if there was some way to ignore directories on
> the filesystem per project, netbeans and eclipse both do this.
> failing that a global ignore string would be good too, could ignore .*
> dirs by default for example so .git .hg .svn etc are ignored.


I suppose just adding a "Ignore file pattern" to the search panel for "Files on File System" filter would be sensible and easy to implement. Could you please create a task on bugreports.qt-project.org for that?

Thx,
-- 
Eike Ziller
Principal Software Engineer

Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks

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