Allow relative paths

[howardjohn]

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!

[dixonwille]

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!

[mpalmer]

I'm in the same boat as @qwerty287, in that I've got trees with the same directory names in multiple places, and doing the exclusion dance gets tedious. Making . mean "the location of this config file" (which would be equivalent to "the current working directory", given that depguard looks for the config file in the cwd) is the approach that makes the most intuitive sense to me.