From 794c0a8f7815a55d3e582ad5549ccf9874f4fc6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Marjam=C3=A4ki?= <danielm77@spray.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:51:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: added a little section about excluding a file or folder
 from checking

---
 man/manual.docbook | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/manual.docbook b/man/manual.docbook
index 75fd9cf26..82b28fdb4 100644
--- a/man/manual.docbook
+++ b/man/manual.docbook
@@ -91,6 +91,24 @@ Checking path/file2.cpp...
 2/2 files checked 100% done</programlisting>
     </section>
 
+    <section>
+      <title>Excluding a file or folder from checking</title>
+
+      <para>There is no command to exclude a file or folder from checking. But
+      you can exclude a file or folder by being more careful when including
+      files and folders in the checking.</para>
+
+      <para>Imagine for example that the folder "src" contain the folders "a",
+      "b" and "c". To exclude "c" this command can be used:</para>
+
+      <programlisting>cppcheck src/a src/b</programlisting>
+
+      <para>All files under "src/a" and "src/b" are then checked.</para>
+
+      <para>The flag <literal>--file-list</literal> might also be
+      useful.</para>
+    </section>
+
     <section>
       <title>Stylistic issues</title>
 
@@ -313,7 +331,7 @@ gui/test.cpp,16,error,mismatchAllocDealloc,Mismatching allocation and deallocati
     <para>If you want to filter out certain errors you can suppress these.
     First you need to create a suppressions file. The format is:</para>
 
-    <programlisting>[error id]:[filename]
+    <programlisting>[error id]:[filename]:[line]
 [error id]:[filename2]
 [error id]</programlisting>