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| author | Brian Gianforcaro <bgianf@serenityos.org> | 2021-05-03 01:58:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Groh <mail@linusgroh.de> | 2021-05-03 15:20:26 +0200 |
| commit | f1c4a42840f1d137b4aa5b0606cbc16403993f64 (patch) | |
| tree | 135d6adb626630d1abed4b06168e0961dc288cd0 /Documentation/CLionConfiguration.md | |
| parent | 0726d39cb1e257ba70666862f6380537019d8b94 (diff) | |
| download | serenity-f1c4a42840f1d137b4aa5b0606cbc16403993f64.zip | |
Documentation: Add a note about excluding the Build directory in CLion
This was discussed a while back on discord, but no one got around to
writing it down yet.
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diff --git a/Documentation/CLionConfiguration.md b/Documentation/CLionConfiguration.md index 50745a788b..60c76039c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/CLionConfiguration.md +++ b/Documentation/CLionConfiguration.md @@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ and set the following fields: (Assuming you use `Ninja` as the build system and `Build Directory`: `Build/i686` +## Excluding Build Artifacts + +Source files are copied to the `Build` directory during the build, if you do not exclude them from CLion indexing they will show up +in search results. This is often confusing, unintuitive, and can result in your loosing changes you have made to files. To exclude +these files navigate to the `Project` tool window, right-click the `Build` folder and select `Mark Directory as | Excluded`. If you +want exclude Toolchain files as well, follow the same procedure with the following paths: +- `Toolchain/Local` +- `Toolchain/Tarballs` +- `Toolchain/Build` + ## Notes for WSL Users It is possible to set the embedded terminal in CLion to the one that your WSL distribution provides. |