[Cobertura-devel] Question on --ignore

[Richard A. <ric...@go...>]

Hi

Just getting started with Cobertura. A few questions centered around
--ignore and --ignoreBranches:

1. The description of the --ignore option for cobertura-instrument.bat is:
Description: "Specify a regular expression to filter out certain lines
of your source code. This is useful for ignoring logging statements.
You can have as many --ignore statements as you want"
Default value: "no files are ignored"

Can --ignore really specify lines of source code? Or is it limited to
specifying classes, as in the example given (--ignore
"org.apache.log4j.*")

2. In instrument.Main.java and in ant.InstrumentTask.java, there is
processing for  --ignoreBranches and <ignoreBranches regex=... />, but
I can't find any related documentation.

How do we use regexs to specify branches in this case?

3. I was going to ask what the difference is between using --ignore
and --ignoreBranches versus excluding a class. But if --ignore and
--ignoreBranches can get down to line and branch level, I guess I have
my answer.

Richard