[Git plugin] Changes history ignore excluded paths

[Pavel Baranchikov]

Hello.

I do not know, what behaviour should be the best for changes view for a build. I suggest to show only the changes, that are not excluded from polling. As for me, we have mulriple projects in the same Git repository. Build of a single project shows multiple changes, most of the (all except one) are changes in excluded paths, so they really do not affect the current build.

• I suppose, that the default behaviour should not show the changes from excluded paths in the changes view
• I suggest ro add additional Git option (disabled by default) to show all the changes.
• Additional quetion is whether to include changes from ignored users and commits with ignored messages. I think, they should be shown.

Could you please post here your oppinions on the subject.

Best regards,
Pavel.

[Mark Waite]

I prefer that the changes list shows all changes that were included in a build. I think that the excluded paths are part of the commit history of the repository and should be visible in the changes list.

Having all changes visible in the changes list is also (for me) a safeguard in those cases when I made a mistake in the exclusion or inclusion regular expression.  I've had cases where all changes visible in the change list were the exact hint I needed to investigate why polling did not detect a certain change that I expected to be visible.

Mark Waite

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Thanks!

Mark Waite

[nicolas de loof]

+1

such change should be listed, with some flag/color to mark them "ignored path"

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