Adding negation '!' in "exclude" glob array returns "No embedded todos found"

[a-maqsood]

Hi, Thank you for creating this awesome extension. You guys are doing great. I really like this extension. Currently I am facing an issue

My exclude settings are as follows:

"todo.embedded.exclude": [
        "**/.git",
        "**/.svn",
        "**/.hg",
        "**/.vscode",
        "**/.github",
        "**/.next",
        "**/node_modules",
        "**/bower_components",
        "**/dist",
        "**/build",
        "**/out",
        "**/output",
        "**/_output",
        "**/third_party",
        "**/*.min.*",
        "**/*.map",
        "local/vendor/**",
        "local/storage/**",
        "js",
        "!js/main.js"
    ]

What I expect for todo-plus is to ignore all files in "js" folder except "js/main.js" but adding '!' in front of "js/main.js" doesn't generate TODOs list and shows notifications "No embedded todos found".

If I remove '!' from "!js/main.js" then it works correctly but I want todo-plus to not ignore "js/main.js". Am I missing something? Help me please

[fabiospampinato]

Hi, Thank you for creating this awesome extension. You guys are doing great. I really like this extension.

Thank you :)

What I expect for todo-plus is to ignore all files in "js" folder except "js/main.js" but adding '!' in front of "js/main.js" doesn't generate TODOs list and shows notifications "No embedded todos found".

It feels a bit weird to have negative globs for "exclusion", but I think it actually makes sense.

Anyway this is an upstream issue, the globs are handled by globby which in turns uses fast-glob under the hood, that seems to be to source of this problem (mrmlnc/fast-glob#86 mrmlnc/fast-glob#103)

[a-maqsood]

@fabiospampinato Thank you for quick reply,

Anyway this is an upstream issue, the globs are handled by globby which in turns uses fast-glob under the hood, that seems to be to source of this problem (mrmlnc/fast-glob#86 mrmlnc/fast-glob#103)

Yeah it definitely isn't an issue with vscode-todo-plus then, from linked issues to fast-glob, it looks like lot of people are expecting this functionality in fast-glob. My hopes are high, may be we get this functionality in fast-glob soon. :)

Anyway I tried adding "js" in exclude glob and "js/main.js" in include glob and it worked, it ignored all files in "js" except "js/main.js"

Again, Thank you for helping me :)

[fabiospampinato]

Anyway I tried adding "js" in exclude glob and "js/main.js" in include glob and it worked, it ignored all files in "js" except "js/main.js"

Nice, I'm glad you found a solution to this.