Ignoring sub-directories in .ackrc

Question

I'd like to get my .ackrc configured so ack doesn't look inside my test/coverage folder. So far I've ended up with this :

--ignore-dir=coverage

This works, but it doesn't feel quite as right as :

--ignore-dir=test/coverage

Problem is the latter doesn't work and test/coverage content is searched.

Am I missing something or is ack not prepared to deal with subdirectories ?

Answer 1

The ack changelog explicity mentions this as a feature, supported since ack 1.93_02. Quote: "The --ignore-dir option now can ignore entire paths relative to your current directory."

I tried it and it works. I would check if your test/coverage directory is directly relative to the folder you're running ack from. Otherwise I'm not sure what could be going on.