Use sphinx's `exclude_patterns` for ignore pattern

[LecrisUT]

Context

An example case is when having doxygen source folder generated in the top-level sphinx source directory. In that case the users puts in the doxygen folder in exclude_patterns. By default this is not in the autobuild ignore, so it will just loop as the doxygen-sphinx builder constantly re-generates the doxygen source.

Proposal

Add the exclude_patterns from sphinx by default in the autobuild ignore (expanding with the conf.py path). The files there are never meant to be source files that sphinx uses, so it should be safe.

Having this as a default would make the doxygen configuration portable under the vcs, so the user wouldn't have to guess what flags to use for autobuild

Tasks and updates

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[LecrisUT]

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[koalp]

Hello. I use sphinx-autoapi, Unfortunately when I activate autoapi_keep_files for faster builds, files are stored in the source directory and sphinx-autobuild detects new files after each build and loops.

Is there a workaround to exclude files to avoid rebuild-loop ? (or should I use the merge request patch ?)