Re: [tarantool-patches] [PATCH v2] build: tags -- Exclude unneeded directories

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 01:15:36PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +list(APPEND tagsExclude "--exclude=.pc/*")
> > > 
> > > What's in '.pc'?
> > 
> > quilt uses it to stack data.
> 
> AFAIK ctags will simply ignore those. It doesn't tag anything in .git
> either. Come to think of it, do we really need to explicitly exclude
> those dirs?

yes we should, simply because it is pointless to force ctags to scan
directory where we _know_ no useful data present, so it will process
a bit faster.

as to .pc -- quilt pushes there original .c|.h when a patch applied,
so this generates unrelated tags and should be excluded from scanning.

> > Guys, maybe we should simply tag src/ directory only? Or there someone
> > who is using tags for tests, third party and etc?
> 
> Tagging third_party is useful. We even patch those sometimes.
> I'm not sure why it's not in src/ though.
> 
> Tagging tests is mostly useless, you're correct, but it doesn't hurt
> much.

until one day :) but I don't insist

> There's also a bunch of autogenerated files (e.g. *.lua.c and module.h).
> I wonder if it makes sense to tag those. I guess it does.

I think the same

	Cyrill