Exclude directories does not actually exclude docs from being generated

[d1onys1us]

Description of problem

Here is the configuration within hardhat.config.ts:

const config = {
...
  docgen: {
    exclude: ["./test"],
    pages: "files",
    templates: "./solidity-docgen/templates",
  },
...
};

I have a folder test, in my contracts src directory. I have tried many patterns such as test, ./test/, **/test/**,test/**/*, etc. None of them seem to work. My templates directory is just a copy of the templates/markdown directory in this repo, because I wasn't sure how else to override the default templates.

Additionally, on the topic of things getting generated -- I have noticed two more random doc generations:

• elin folder is generated with OpenZeppelin contracts in it, however I do not have these contracts in my source directory.

• console.md file is generated in the root.

  Desired resolution

  • Correctly exclude files specified in exclude
  • Exclude the extraneous files I have noticed above: elin/* and console.md

[frangio]

I can't reproduce this. exclude: ['./test'] should work. Are you deleting the directory and it gets regenerated? If so, please share your repo so I can try it out.

elin might be something you had previously... you should try hardhat clean and then generate docs again.

console.md is odd, it may also be the above. Are you using the latest 0.6 version?

[d1onys1us]

i will close this issue because it turns out the elin and console.md files being generated were because i also had another docgen tool installed, and both of them were running on compile.