Support for excluding entire namespaces in addition to individual tasks #2300

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   on Jun 18, 2025
2. vmaerten

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   issue type on Aug 9, 2025
3. vmaerten

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   area: includesChanges related to included taskfiles.Changes related to included taskfiles.

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4. trulede commented on May 31, 2026

   

   trulede

   on May 31, 2026

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   @dgroh it could be an idea to support regular expressions in the excludes list. Something like this:

   func MatchTextAuto(input, pattern string) bool {
   	// Characters that indicate a likely regex pattern
   	regexMetaChars := `*+?^$()[]{}|`
   
   	// If the pattern contains any meta-characters, treat it as regex
   	if strings.ContainsAny(pattern, regexMetaChars) {
   		re, err := regexp.Compile(pattern)
   		if err == nil {
   			return re.MatchString(input)
   		}
   	}
   	// Fallback to string matching.
   	return strings.Contains(input, pattern)
   }
   

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   good first issueIssues that are good for first-time contributors to pick up.Issues that are good for first-time contributors to pick up.

   on May 31, 2026
6. kjasn commented on Jul 1, 2026

   

   kjasn

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   @dgroh it could be an idea to support regular expressions in the excludes list. Something like this:

   func MatchTextAuto(input, pattern string) bool {
   	// Characters that indicate a likely regex pattern
   	regexMetaChars := `*+?^$()[]{}|`
   
   	// If the pattern contains any meta-characters, treat it as regex
   	if strings.ContainsAny(pattern, regexMetaChars) {
   		re, err := regexp.Compile(pattern)
   		if err == nil {
   			return re.MatchString(input)
   		}
   	}
   	// Fallback to string matching.
   	return strings.Contains(input, pattern)
   }
   

   I found it support wildcard task names like deploy:*. If there are tasks like deploy:* and deploy:1 in a included task file, and excludes option like this deploy:*. What's the result it should be, excludes all task matched with regex deploy:* or only excludes task deploy:*.
7. vmaerten

   closed this as completedin #2959on Aug 10, 2026