Issue 1983: Filter to exclude files from Change Overview (e.g. generated src-gen files)
Status:  New
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Reported by r.cirie...@gmail.com, Jun 27, 2013
When you work with MDSE Frameworks like e.g. Xtext/Xtend, your changes often contain a lot of generated sources. This makes the changes unnecessarily big, since the generated sources usually are not of interest for the reviewer. Thus, there should be a functionality to exclude certain sources from being displayed in the Change Overview via a filter.

For Eclipse developers, generated sources are usually contained in folders called "src-gen" and "xtend-gen". So a reasonable default option would be to exclude files in those folders from the Change Overview.
Jun 27, 2013
Project Member #1 edwin.ke...@gmail.com
You may consider to not commit generated files at all, but to just create them as part of your build.
Jul 1, 2013
#2 r.cirie...@gmail.com
Still it would be more convenient not having to pick the non-generated files for every commit. Those kinds of changes get very big very soon, so that functionality could safe the effort of selecting the "real" changes from the sometimes thousands of touched sources by generators.
Sep 3, 2015
#3 lpack...@gmail.com
Vendoring of things (like in Go projects) is something where this would be very useful.