Visual Studio Code include single file on excluded path

Question

I have configured Visual Studio Code (VCS) to exclude the imported directory and all code under it using:

    "files.exclude": {
    "**/imported": true
    }

This imported folder is very large, containing many large code bases. It is excluded for performance reasons.

However I want to still include some imported library interface files so they can be source indexed.

For example, I want to still include imported/library-a/library-a-interface.h to simplify development using these interfaces (structure fields shown in the editor, etc).

Is this possible? if so how?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 18:35

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As of VS Code 1.15, we don't have a good story for this. We are tracking the issue here

answered Aug 08 '17 at 18:35

Matt Bierner

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Ah that's unfortunate, no workarounds without manually encoding the entire directory scope? – Chris Aug 08 '17 at 20:55
None that I am aware of – Matt Bierner Aug 08 '17 at 21:02

Visual Studio Code include single file on excluded path

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