Library Drift Check

Library Drift Check

Flags registered library roots that have source on disk but nothing in the index. Reach for it to catch a library index that has silently gone stale or was never built.

Running it from the CLI

drag-lint library-drift [--platform <p>] [--config <path>] [--json]

Exits 2 if drift is found. --platform scopes the check to win32 or win64; --config points at an alternate manifest.

A root whose own folder name the Library section's walk prunes -- an exclude glob such as the manifest's global "Win64", which matches compiled-lib roots like ...\Lib\RX13\Win64 -- is not drift: no rescan can index it. It is listed apart (EXCLUDED BY CONFIG in text, excludedRoots in JSON) and does not count toward exit 2. To index such a root, change the exclude, not the scan.

Reaching it in the IDE

drag-lint > Index & Maintenance > Library Drift Check...

What it needs

No index required -- this command has no --db flag; it checks the registered library manifest and what is on disk against what is already indexed, rather than querying a specific project's index.

Example

Illustrative only:

drag-lint library-drift --platform win64 --json

This would report, as JSON, any Win64 library roots that have source on disk but nothing indexed, exiting 2 if any are found.