Excluding directories in DIFFzilla

[asandler]

Guys, how can I exclude entire directories in DIFFzilla. For instance, I was comparing two directory trees. Both of them are from CVS. Yet I don't want DIFFzilla to compare contents of CVS directories. I tried appending CVS\* to Exclude filespecs, but it didn't work. Eventually I added files by their name - Entries Repository Root Tag, etc... Well, it worked, but now I want to filter out contents of .objs directories as well. And I cannot list names of all object files. What should I do?

Alex.

[ScottW, VP of Dev]

Unfortunately, we are not very consistent about the syntax we use for exclude specs in SlickEdit. For Diffzilla, use "CVS\" without any wildcards. This also seemed to work, "*\CVS\*". Those two forms should work with any directory name.

I have filed a CR to scour SlickEdit and unify the exclude spec behaviors. Hopefully, we'll be able to tackle this in SlickEdit 2010.

[asandler]

Thanks Scott. Exactly what I needed.