This is great, thanks, this worked for me, since I have a short list of symlinks that I don't want to index.
regards, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Haehn, Steven <steven.ha...@xerox.com> wrote: > As opposed to modifying your repository to avoid the symlinks, have you tried > setting up a list of directories to ignore? > (this of course will only work if the links are using names that would be > different from original paths) > It also requires that you know which directories are links, but you know that > already considering you are making repository modifications. > For instance, the following paths would be ignored: -i nova/lib/extra -i > do/not/index/this > > > -----Original Message----- > From: opengrok-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > [mailto:opengrok-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jacobo de Vera > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 5:50 PM > To: opengrok-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [opengrok] How can I make OpenGrok skip symlinks to directories? > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Petr Sobotka <sobot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Jacobo, >> >> I think that there is argument "-z " to set depth how many symlinks >> should be followed. >> Try to set it to 0. (I believe that default value is 3) >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Petr Sobotka aka Pietro >> >> 2012/10/2 Jacobo de Vera <de...@jacobodevera.com> >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'm using OpenGrok to index just one big project, and we have a >>> couple of symlinks to access deeply nested directories with ease. I >>> was under the impression the OpenGrok would, by itself, and unless >>> told otherwise, skip all symlinks. However, I am finding this is not >>> the case. When I am creating the indexes, symlinks to directories are >>> explored and all files inside are added, which results in duplicate >>> results with different paths when doing any searches. Is there any >>> setting that I can use to prevent this? Right now I'm simply deleting >>> the symlinks before indexing, but I'm hoping to find some cleaner >>> solution that doesn't involve modifying the repository. Is there one? >>> >>> Thanks and regards, >>> >>> -- >>> Jacobo de Vera >>> _______________________________________________ >>> opengrok-discuss mailing list >>> opengrok-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opengrok-discuss >> >> > > Hi, The -z option doesn't seem to be it: > -z number > depth of scanning for repositories in directory structure relative to > source root > > I still tried it, with no success, though. I could not find anything in the > usage that refers to symlink other than the option to allow specific > symlinks, which made me think that by default they would not be followed, but > it seems they are followed. > > Any other suggestions? > > Thanks and regards, > > -- > Jacobo de Vera > _______________________________________________ > opengrok-discuss mailing list > opengrok-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opengrok-discuss -- Jacobo de Vera _______________________________________________ opengrok-discuss mailing list opengrok-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opengrok-discuss
