Ignoring some files in coverage testing when github actions is taking care of continuous integration

General Usage
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I would like to skip the coverage testing (via codecov.io) for some of the files in a github repo. I’m using github actions to run workflows for continuous integration. The files I want to skip are not part of the primary modules anymore, but I’m not ready to delete them from the repo altogether.

I’ve come across a lot of conflicting information about how to do this, but nothing I have tried has actually worked. I reached to support at codecov.io, and after a bit of back and forth, got something figured out. Posted below in hopes it might be useful to others as well.

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Here’s what worked for me.

  1. The list of files to be skipped is not included in the main CI.yml file but included in a separate yml file with the ignore tag. Here’s my specific example:
ignore:
  - "src/proto*.jl"  
  - "src/plotsForPaper.jl"
  - "src/early_tests_of_bases.jl"
  - "src/convertStrin.jl"
  - "src/convertVaspData.jl"
  1. This file is named codecov.yml (not .codecov.yml)
  2. This file is placed in the root folder of the repo, not in .github/workflows.