Bug 577820 - [Search] Exclude symlinks and externals
Summary: [Search] Exclude symlinks and externals
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Search (show other bugs)
Version: 4.22   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Search-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2021-12-15 06:44 EST by Marvin Fröhlich CLA
Modified: 2021-12-15 06:44 EST (History)
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Description Marvin Fröhlich CLA 2021-12-15 06:44:56 EST 
I would like to suggest to add an option to skip symlinked files and those in symlinked (sub)folders in a workspace search. Also SVN externals folders are a good idea to exclude.

I don't know, if this is a common problem. But whenever I perform a search over certain projects, I get duplicate results due to some folders being checked out twice via SVN externals and included multiple times because of symlinked folders.