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Fix exclude filters on Windows #158
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This looks like a reasonable solution to fix the Windows filter problem, but do we really need a separate code path just for Windows? Wouldn't something like this also work?:
Or do you see any drawbacks with that approach, e.g. around symlinks?
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At line 505 in gcovr, "Return if the filename does not match the filter" it will always return in Windows. For me this is a serious issue... by removing 10 lines of code the gcovr tool is really working great for me!!!! wasted 2 days on this grgrrgr...
Around line 518 in gcovr, find following part of code:
and change this code in:
Remember not to use tabs, only spaces are allowed!
This will cure the windows problem. If there are too many files, just exclude them the right way.
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@barthoukes Thank you for investigating this, and I'm sorry that you found gcovr difficult to use. But please note that this discussion should be limited to the changes in this pull request.
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