Files without file extension are not included for linting

[tymonx]

Subject of the issue

Files without file extension are not included for linting. Example: README.

Your environment

• OS: podman
• Packages: podman run -it --rm registry.gitlab.com/pipeline-components/alex:0.21.9 --version

11.0.0

• Env: podman run -it --rm registry.gitlab.com/pipeline-components/alex:0.21.9 env

NODE_VERSION=19.8.1
YARN_VERSION=1.22.19

Steps to reproduce

1. Create file without file extension:

echo "pop" > README

2. Run alex:

podman run -it --rm --volume "$(pwd):/alex:ro,z" --workdir "/alex" registry.gitlab.com/pipeline-components/alex:0.21.9 --why .

Expected behaviour

It should return status code 1 and print:

README
  1:1-1:4  warning  `pop` may be insensitive, use `parent` instead  dad-mom  retext-equality

⚠ 1 warning

Actual behaviour

It returns status code 0 (success) without printing anything to standard output or error output.

Workaround

Explicitly provide files without file extension to alex:

podman run -it --rm --volume "$(pwd):/alex:ro,z" --workdir "/alex" registry.gitlab.com/pipeline-components/alex:0.21.9 --why README

But this will not work when .alexignore is defined:

echo "README" > .alexignore

It returns status code 1 and prints:

README
  1:1  error  Cannot process specified file: it’s ignored

✖ 1 error

Related issues

• https://github.com/get-alex/alex/issues/170

[wooorm]

Hi!

It is intentional that files without extensions, which could include any code, or be for example binary files, are not included by default.

If you want to include certain files, pass them: alex whatever