Open glocq opened 4 days ago
This is currently not supported, but adding a name-based filter to the NodeFilter phase should only take a few lines. PR's welcome.
As a potentially better solution I'm imagining changing the dependency filtering to have rsync-style chained forward/backward include/exclude rules, but that would be a much more significant change.
Ok, thank you for pointing me to the relevant lines, I'll look into it when I have some time.
I am not familiar with rsync, so I don't understand what you have in mind for the more significant change, though I understand the benefits that a more flexible system would bring.
--exclude
lets me exclude modules--forward-root
and--reverse-root
let me selectively include nodes and their direct/reverse dependencies.As far as I know, there is no option that would allow me to selectively exclude nodes, i.e. display all nodes but those I manually excluded. Am I right? If so, could such an option be added?
My use case: I am trying to make sense of a messy module. The module features a couple of utility functions used a lot, which clutter the graph with arrows that come from everywhere, and whose role I understand well anyway.
Using
--exports-only
would hide those, but also a number of functions which are not exported, but are still part of themeat
of the module, i.e. they are more than just utility functions and I need Calligraphy's help to understand their exact role.