From 8df943f8298b6d3e45e6f01cc8f404efff8c109d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muneeb Ullah Khan
 <100969065+MuneebUllahKhan222@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 15:13:41 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] [INS-331] Fix the issue causing the tests file system soruce
 tests to fail on windows (#4743)

* fix excludepaths flag causing the test to fail

* fixed bugbot comms
---
 pkg/sources/filesystem/filesystem_test.go | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/sources/filesystem/filesystem_test.go b/pkg/sources/filesystem/filesystem_test.go
index 151cada66..07803ca72 100644
--- a/pkg/sources/filesystem/filesystem_test.go
+++ b/pkg/sources/filesystem/filesystem_test.go
@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ func TestSkipDir(t *testing.T) {
 	defer cleanupDir()
 
 	// create an ExcludePathsFile that contains the ignoreDir path
-	excludeFile, cleanupFile, err := createTempFile("", ignoreDir+"\n")
+	// In windows path contains \ so we escape it by replacing it with \\ in ignoreDir
+	excludeFile, cleanupFile, err := createTempFile("", strings.ReplaceAll(ignoreDir, `\`, `\\`)+"\n")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	defer cleanupFile()
 
@@ -392,8 +393,8 @@ func TestScanSubDirFile(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// Create an IncludePathsFile with the absolute path of the file
 	includeFilePath := filepath.Join(testDir, "include.txt")
-	err = os.WriteFile(includeFilePath, []byte(filePath+"\n"), 0644)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
+	err = os.WriteFile(includeFilePath, []byte(strings.ReplaceAll(filePath, `\`, `\\`)+"\n"), 0644)
+  require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	conn, err := anypb.New(&sourcespb.Filesystem{
 		IncludePathsFile: includeFilePath,