Allow relative paths

[John Howard]

Currently, we have a bunch of rules like

        files:
          - "!**/pkg/a/**"
          - "!**/pkg/b/**"

Ideally we could write something like

        files:
          - "!./pkg/a/**"
          - "!./pkg/b/**"

Or

        files:
          - "!$root/pkg/a/**"
          - "!$root/pkg/b/**"

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Where this is relative to is up to debate, but probably the module root makes the most sense?

ps: thanks for the great linter!

[Will Dixon]

I'll see if it is possilbe... I have to turn everything into an absolute path as that is what I am given from golang's tools. A hack would be to expand either . or $root with ** but then I feel like it is lying.

I do like the variable approach though! Wonder if $git could be the root of the git repository and $mod could be the go module (would need to play around with a mono repo with multiple mod files).

[qwerty287]

Hi,

it seems that this is necessary for us to be able to use it because we have various directories both in top-level but also in subdirectories.

Example tree:

├── somedir
│   └── some_file.go
└── anotherdir
    └── somedir
        └── another_file.go

I'd like to only scan somedir/*.go, but I can't - because I have to specify **/somedir/*.go and this also matches anotherdir/somedir/*.go.

Of course, I can add a lot of ! statements to ignore them, but I don't think this is a good way to go.

A hack would be to expand either . or $root with ** but then I feel like it is lying.

Indeed, that would be useless. Wouldn't it be possible to expand ./$root (I don't care which one you choose) to the current working directory/root path of the project?

Thanks!