[FR]: Non-Git way to ignore directories

[jack-bradshaw]

What is the current behavior?

Excluding a directory requires either:

1. Using .gitattributes (e.g. somedir/** rules-lint-ignored=true)
2. Using a formatter-specific exclusion (e.g. prettier exclusion file).

This is documented here.

Describe the feature

Please consider adding an exclusion mechanism that allows path-based exclusion but is not coupled to git, so that users of other VCS systems can apply the path-based exclusion system available with .gitattributes. For example, it could be a .rules_lint_exclusions file in the root that functions effectively the same as .gitattributes exclusions, just without any reference to git. This would significantly improve the usefulness of the rule set for non-git VCS users.

[alexeagle]

This makes sense. But for argument's sake, if the proposed new file was documented to exactly follow .gitattribute semantics (so that our implementation doesn't need to grow in complexity" - then this request is simplified to "let me specify the path of the .gitattributes file". Would that work for you?

[jack-bradshaw]

Yep, that makes sense. Thanks for considering this.