Exclude some files in the build

[jvela018]

Hi,

I'm using this tool to create a JSON Compilation Database. My static analysis tool doesn't recognize assembly code in .s nor .S extensions. I'm currently removing these manually as they're not many.

Is there a way to exclude certain compilation units using compiledb? If not, this could be an interesting feature to have.

BR,

/Jon

[UmbraMalison]

Came for this. I have an assembly file (.s) in the root of my repo, which clang-tidy will error on (diagnostic).

Thus I have not had any luck using .clang-tidy to disable checks in root, as this unfortunately causes an early exit even though I have checks enabled in a nested clang-tidy file.

Interestingly, I use the Microsoft makefile extension in vscode as a config providor to code analysis component of the Microsoft cpp extension and that generates the compile_commands DB, and by default it does not include assembly files.

This then lead me to this question, can compiledb filter out assembly compile commands.