fix(phpcs): run from project root instead of file directory#5105
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When phpcs.xml sets installed_paths to a relative path (e.g. vendor/slevomat/coding-standard), running phpcs from the file's directory causes it to fail because the path is resolved relative to cwd rather than the config file location. Change cwd to find the nearest composer.json and use that directory, matching how most PHP ecosystem tools expect to operate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* upstream/master: Added support for harper in markdown files (dense-analysis#5104) fix(phpcs): run from project root instead of file directory (dense-analysis#5105) support running solargraph via bundle (dense-analysis#5097) Fix dense-analysis#5062 - Keep ALE LSP compatible with Neovim 0.10 and 0.11+ Tell OpenCode how to write ALE code feat(rstcheck): Add automatic --config support with version check (dense-analysis#5095) Truncate astro test files to quiet dependabot Skip ALE docker download attempts doc goimport (dense-analysis#5093) refactor: use ale#Pad for option padding across the codebase (dense-analysis#5091) add option to lint diff buffers (dense-analysis#3185)
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Summary
When
phpcs.xmlsetsinstalled_pathsto a relative path (e.g.vendor/slevomat/coding-standard), running phpcs from the file's directory causes it to fail because the path is resolved relative to cwd rather than the config file location.This changes the linter to find the project root by looking for:
phpcs.xml/phpcs.xml.dist/.phpcs.xml/.phpcs.xml.distcomposer.json(fallback)If none are found, it falls back to ALE's default behavior (returns
v:null).This follows the same pattern as the
phpstanlinter.Most likely fixes #3146; I suspect we have the same underlying issue, but that ticket is over 5 years old so I don't want to do too much digging.
Test plan
composer.jsonto test fixture for project root detectioninstalled_pathsset to a relative vendor path🤖 Generated with Claude Code