Sonar Inclusions default value

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  • which versions are you using (SonarQube Server / Community Build, Scanner, Plugin, and any relevant extension):- Enterprise Edition v2025.1 (102418)
  • how is SonarQube deployed: zip
  • what are you trying to achieve

We are trying to sue Sonar.inclusion and set it default value to include everything if not specified.

We have a task in Azure Devops pipeline for “Prepare Analysis Configuration” version 7.*. And it has the parameters below:
```
sonar.inclusions=$(SonarInclusions)
sonar.exclusions=$(SonarExclusions)
sonar.test.inclusions=$(SonarTestInclusions)
```

Can someone confirm what the default parameters for these pipelines are? Can they be left like below, or would it cause different behaviour than excluding them?
```
sonar.inclusions=
sonar.exclusions=
sonar.test.inclusions=
```

  • what have you tried so far to achieve this:- tried to pass it blank for all projects and set up comma separated value of dlls in specific project we want it to include only those. It works when we set comma separated value, only scenario fail where we want to take everything if no value is set

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Hi,

You’re best off not using any of these settings if you don’t have to. A revamp of the docs somehow lost the discussion here, so please forgive my pointing you to stale documentation, but the content there is evergreen.

Essentially, you should only use inclusions or exclusions when you need to alter what’s picked up by sonar.sources, and you only need sonar.test.inclusions when your sonar.tests value is too broad.

It’s a bit intricate, and those old docs give a good explanation, so I won’t get into details here unless you have questions from them.

 
HTH
Ann