Add autodiscoverExclusions to exclude projects fetched by autodiscoverFilter

[szpak]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

I would like to be able to add the whole GitLab group to autodiscoverFilter, yet exclude some legacy projects in that group.

The following approch doesn't work:

  autodiscover: true,
  autodiscoverFilter: [
    "whole-group1/*",
    "!/whole-group1/legacy-project-to-skip/",
    ...

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

As suggested in #21341, it might be possible to achieve with a separate autodiscoverExclusions, e.g.

  autodiscover: true,
  autodiscoverFilter: [
    "whole-group1/*",
  ],
  autodiscoverExclusions: [
    "whole-group1/legacy-project-to-skip"
  ]

The elements in autodiscoverExclusions should be subtracted from the projects resolved by autodiscoverFilter. Probably it would be good to have an ability to use also regexps in autodiscoverExclusions (e.g. "whole-group1/legacy-project*" or "/whole-group1/legacy-group/**/" or "/**/.*-static-pages/").

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

No