From e710133c3a5fb541dbec06d3ce31cb9bb8ce1d97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CyrilWaechter <cyril@biminsight.ch>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:32:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Honour excluded paths in CI change detection

dorny/paths-filter only applies negated ('!') rules with the
some-with-excludes predicate quantifier. With the default 'some',
the '!src/ifcopenshell-python/docs/**' rule makes the filter match
every file outside docs, so unrelated changes (e.g. a new workflow
file) incorrectly trigger the full build.

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---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index b7a3dc0710..ed526e4733 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ jobs:
       - uses: dorny/paths-filter@v4
         id: filter
         with:
+          # 'some-with-excludes' is required for the '!...' rule to be honoured.
+          # With the default 'some', the negated rule ends up matching everything.
+          predicate-quantifier: 'some-with-excludes'
           filters: |
             code:
               - 'src/bcf/**'