How to exclude a directory from the code analysis?

Question

There have been some questions about this, but none of them solves my problem.

I use SonarQube to do code analysis on one of my projects, which contain a Migrations directory. I would like to exclude all the source files in that directory from the code analysis.

In the projects Configuration->Settings->Exclusions->Files->Source Files Exclusions I added "**/Migrations/.", but in the analysis results I still get issues in code files in that directory.
The directory structure of my project looks like this: \MyProject\Migrations\SourceFile.cs

What am I doing wrong? Am I entering the wildcard in the wrong place, or my wildcard is wrong?

In the logs I can see

13:06:23.460 INFO  - Copy-paste detection exclusions:
13:06:23.476 **/Migrations/*.*

but then I can also see

13:06:12.076 INFO  - Inspecting <MyProject>\Migrations\SourceFile.cs

Answer 1

That's the correct place to set it up. Please try simply /Migrations/** or /MyProject/Migrations/**. When you go to one of the issues you want to get rid of, you'll see what your "regex" path should start with.

And one more tip: To see result, you have to rebuild the project, run sonar again. And again, until you get it right.

Answer 2

I had to use a different setting.

Instead of Configuration->Settings->Exclusions->Files->Source Files Exclusions I had to use Configuration->Settings->Exclusions->Issues->Ignore Issues on Multiple Criteria.

In this setting, I had to set the RULE KEY PATTERN to *, and I had to set the path wildcard in the FILE PATH PATTERN, **/Migrations/. works perfectly.