.prettierignore from CLI

[lamyergeier]

My .prettierignore :

Templates/Submodule/pandoc-letter/example/letter.md

• I read that prettier searches at ./.prettierignore. So, prettier --write Templates/Submodule/pandoc-letter/example/letter.md is ignored, here the path is relative to the location of .prettierignore.

• But when I execute prettier --write example/letter.md from a path relative to ${PWD} but not relative to .prettierignore, it isn't ignored.

• But logically it should be ignored. Prettier should find the ignore file recursively up and then ignore accordingly.

[ikatyang]

• But when I execute prettier --write example/letter.md from a path relative to ${PWD} but not relative to .prettierignore, it isn't ignored.

--ignore-path defaults to .prettierignore, which means you need to manually specify it in this case, for example: prettier --write example/letter.md --ignore-path ../../../.prettierignore.

• But logically it should be ignored. Prettier should find the ignore file recursively up and then ignore accordingly.

I have never seen up-traversing for .ignore files. Did .gitignore work that way?

[j-f1]

.gitignore traverses down from the repository root.

[lamyergeier]

Did .gitignore work that way?

I think it works precisely like that. Suppose only the repository root folder has .gitignore file, in the entire repository. You can go to any subfolder and list out ignored files git check-ignore -v *.

[ikatyang]

git commands are applied from the repo root (where .git/ lives), but there's no concept for repo in Prettier.

[lamyergeier]

May be prettier could check if its a git repository and if so could behave like git. Or else do you recommend to put prettierignore in each folder? But in that case Vscode extension doesn't work as it looks at project root.

[thorn0]

Duplicate of #4081