[CodeQL] How do you exclude some files / directories in the creation of a database?

[JasperSurmont]

A large part of my Go project is scaffolded (boilerplate). Is there a way, when creating the database, to exclude these prebuilt files and only include certain (self-written) files?

[jketema]

Hi @JasperSurmont. Thanks for your question. It's unfortunately not possible to exclude some of the files, as CodeQL needs a somewhat complete view of your codebase in order to reason able the code. There are several options here:

• If your code has several build targets, you may just want to build those that include the code you're interested in analyzing.
• If your eventual aim is to filter alerts in code scanning, then we recommend dismissing the alerts in the code scanning UI. However there's also the filter-sarif action and dismiss alerts action that may help here.