File exclusion at workspace level is not working

[magdumnikhil]

Issue Type: Bug

Create the tree structure as follow:

C:\Users\admin\Desktop\new>tree /f
Folder PATH listing for volume OS
Volume serial number is xxxx-xxxx
C:.
│   p1.code-workspace
│
└───project
    ├───p1
    │   ├───p1_1
    │   │       a1.c
    │   │
    │   └───p1_2
    │           a2.c
    │
    └───p2
        ├───p2_1
        │       a1.c
        │
        └───p2_2
                a2.c

Content of p1.code-workspace

{
    "folders": [
        {
            "path": "project\\p1"
        },
        {
            "path": "project\\p2"
        }
    ],
    "settings": {
        "files.exclude": {
            "project\\p1\\p1_2\\**": true,
            "project\\p2\\p2_1\\**": true,
        },
        "files.watcherExclude": {
            "project\\p1\\p1_2\\**": true,
            "project\\p2\\p2_1\\**": true,
        }
    }
}

Open the workspace in vscode.

Observed: All the files in the folder are listed in the explorer as well as appear in the quick picker (ctrl + p)

Expected: The files/folders excluded in the setting should not appear in the explorer and quick picker.

This behavior could be superset of #155837

VS Code version: Code 1.69.2 (3b889b090b5ad5793f524b5d1d39fda662b96a2a, 2022-07-18T16:12:52.460Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22000 Restricted Mode: No

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11850H @ 2.50GHz (16 x 2496)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_renderer: enabled_on
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|31.73GB (18.43GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 85c323a1-5d98-45e5-8818-74519d9e3b95| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (24)

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A/B Experiments

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[gjsjohnmurray]

Do you get the same results if you change all your \\s to / ?

[magdumnikhil]

Yes.

[gjsjohnmurray]

Based on https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50638#issuecomment-721685105 and #48262 it's not currently possible to do this with settings in your .code-workspace file. You can do it by putting the setting in the .vscode/settings.json of the folder you want it to apply to, but then it will apply on every .code-workspace that includes the folder, and also if you open the folder directly.

[vscodenpa]

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[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[vscodenpa]

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