abcd docs lint walks gitignored content under a lint root. In a repository whose lint roots include a delivery folder, a shipped fetch script writes assessment data and a cached git clone of the abcd repository under that folder, which .gitignore excludes; the lint read the whole cached clone (5,391 findings, 94 blockers, all inside the ignored folder, none in the repository's own prose). exempt_paths covers the content-authoring families only, so with the folder exempted ten links_resolve blockers still fire from inside the cache, whose record files link to paths that resolve only in the abcd checkout. A gitignored path is by definition not the repository's documentation; the lint could ask git check-ignore once per root and prune ignored directories, the way the site publisher already does, and name what it pruned. Workaround the adopter took: the fetch script keeps its clone cache outside every lint root. Observed on the v0.8.0 plugin binary. Second instance of the class behind iss-2609151150180583 (exempt_paths cannot excuse links_resolve).

abcd docs lint walks gitignored content under a lint root. In a repository whose lint roots include a delivery folder, a shipped fetch script writes assessment data and a cached git clone of the abcd repository under that folder, which .gitignore excludes; the lint read the whole cached clone (5,391 findings, 94 blockers, all inside the ignored folder, none in the repository's own prose). exempt_paths covers the content-authoring families only, so with the folder exempted ten links_resolve blockers still fire from inside the cache, whose record files link to paths that resolve only in the abcd checkout. A gitignored path is by definition not the repository's documentation; the lint could ask git check-ignore once per root and prune ignored directories, the way the site publisher already does, and name what it pruned. Workaround the adopter took: the fetch script keeps its clone cache outside every lint root. Observed on the v0.8.0 plugin binary. Second instance of the class behind iss-2609151150180583 (exempt_paths cannot excuse links_resolve).

Grounds

• pursued: a cached clone under a lint root raises no finding and is named as pruned while a committed file a pattern matches is still read; a finding from an ignored path, or a tracked file skipped, would show it wrong