How to make `dotnet-format` ignoring certain directory?

Question

I have the following lines defined in my .editorconfig file:

# Ignore paths
[Assets/NRSDK/*]

[Assets/VLCUnity/*]

generated_code = true

But they are ineffective, every time I run dotnet-format it still format everything under them. Is it feature broken? What can be done to make it honoured?

Answer 1

For the given .editorconfig content, [Assets/NRSDK/*] and [Assets/VLCUnity/*] are separate section headers. They don't combine. Use [{Assets/NRSDK/*,Assets/VLCUnity/*}] as the section header or duplicate the name/value pairs for both sections.

It appears that generated_code = true, while used by code analyzers, may not be recognized or honored by dotnet format. (Maybe that should be a feature request.)

The format subcommand has an --exclude switch. The switch can appear multiple times in the same command line.

The following should work:

dotnet format --exclude Assets/NRSDK --exclude Assets/VLCUnity

Answer 2

Try --exclude option, this is an example from docs

dotnet format --include ./src/ ./tests/ --exclude ./src/submodule-a/