Simple example needed on how to ignore or whitelist a directory

[Jason Culligan]

I've spent around 30 mins reading and searching on how to ignore s /tests/ directory and I have failed. Can someone share info on how this is done?

[Dane Erickson]

Same. It seems the example ignore file lists out each file individually.

[Gregory Sprenger]

I've spent way too long on this. The documentation is confusing, where the allowlist is used to ignore paths/regexes.

I have the following in gitleaks.toml:

[allowlist]
paths = [
  '''bin/'''
]

And then you have to directly pass the gitleaks.toml file gitleaks detect like so:

gitleaks detect --config /path/to/gitleaks.toml