Exclude items from analysis

I’m currently taking a dependency on the NuGet package xunit.assert.source in my (.NET core) test project, and I can’t figure out how to exclude the source files in that package from analysis.

Is this possible?

[samcragg]

Could we extend the stylecop.json file to have the include/exclude options used by project.json, so you could do something like this (where the files are specified with a globbing pattern, rooted at the project folder):

{
  "settings": {
    "files": {
      "include": String or String[],
      "exclude": String or String[]
    }
  }
}

As with project.json, the exclude patterns would have a higher priority than the include patterns.

I’m happy to submit a pull request if the above sounds reasonable, though I’d like to get the go ahead from a project member first as there are already a few pull requests waiting (though @sharwell is doing a great job getting them closed lately 😃)

[sharwell]

At this point, this would be a reasonable issue to file on dotnet/roslyn. StyleCop Analyzers 1.1+ does not perform any file exclusions itself, but instead relies on the compiler to decide which files are considered “generated” (its designation for exclusions).