Ability to suppress error "Cannot process specified file: it’s ignored"

[foray1010]

Subject of the feature

Do not throw error when running with ignored file

Problem

I am using remark-cli with lint-staged, lint-staged doesn't know the content in .remarkignore, so it will try to run on all modified md files with remark-cli. But as the file is ignored by remark-cli, it throws error Cannot process specified file: it’s ignored

Expected behavior

I can use remark-cli with lint-staged without any errors

Alternatives

As it may be a breaking change, maybe a flag to enable?

[wooorm]

The engine has a silentlyIgnore option that allows this; unified-args doesn’t, and I kinda think that’s correct behavior.

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The current behavior also resembles ESLint, say we had example.js:

console.log(1)

and .eslintrc.json:

{
  "extends": "eslint:recommended"
}

...now, if we’d run eslint example.js, we’d get:

  1:1  error  'console' is not defined  no-undef

✖ 1 problem (1 error, 0 warnings)

...and if we’d add an .eslintignore:

example.js

...we’d get:

  0:0  warning  File ignored because of a matching ignore pattern. Use "--no-ignore" to override

✖ 1 problem (0 errors, 1 warning)

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Here’s what ESLint decided on the topic, and I feel similar, and you can solve this on lint-staged’s side as described in their docs.

[foray1010]

thank you! I figure that it will be too much work to filter the files in lint-staged, as normally there are just a few markdown files per repo. I finally go for running on all markdown files in lint-staged by remark .

[muravjev]

thank you! I figure that it will be too much work to filter the files in lint-staged ...

Unfortunately, if there are many md files in repo it is a problem. And it should be solved twice: in .remarkignore and in .lintstagedrc.js, and then kept the solution in sync.

Great suggestion, @foray1010 .

P.S. I guess many people (as me) don't even suspect, that .remarkignore is not working in lint-staged :(

[foray1010]

@muravjev Now remark-cli supports --silently-ignore flag, I have been able to run on modified markdown files only (See 1 and 2) for a while.