Explicitly passing paths/files to command should still honour the configured exclusions

[claudiu-cristea]

Describe the bug

phpcs.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ruleset name="foo">
  <arg name="extensions" value="inc,php"/>
  <file>/var/www/html/</file>
  <exclude-pattern>/var/www/html/excluded.php</exclude-pattern>
</ruleset>

When I run

phpcs /var/www/html/excluded.php

The file shouldn't be checked because is has been excluded in phpcs.xml, which is used to run the command.

Here's a use case: I'm detecting all changed files when pushing to a Git remote repository because I want to run PHPCS on Git pre-push hook. The set of files may contain files that are excluded phpcs.xml. I'm expecting that, even I'm passing them to phpcs, as arguments, phpcs.xml is honoured.

Code sample

See "Describe the bug" section

Custom ruleset

See "Describe the bug" section

To reproduce

See "Describe the bug" section

Expected behavior

Even paths or files are passed as arguments to the command line, I'm expecting that file/path exclusions, configured in phpcs.xml are respected.

Versions (please complete the following information)

Operating System	Linux
PHP version	8.3
PHP_CodeSniffer version	3.9.2
Standard	custom
Install type	Composer

Additional context

None.

Please confirm

• I have searched the issue list and am not opening a duplicate issue.
• I confirm that this bug is a bug in PHP_CodeSniffer and not in one of the external standards.
• I have verified the issue still exists in the master branch of PHP_CodeSniffer.

[jrfnl]

@claudiu-cristea Thanks for reporting this, but I don't think this is a bug in PHPCS. Rather, I think this is a problem with the paths not matching.

And yes, I've tested and could not reproduce the issue with the scenarios I ran.

To help you figure this out, I need more information though.

• Where is your phpcs.xml file located in your directory structure ?
• What directory are your running PHPCS from ?
• The paths provided look like absolute paths ? Is there a particular reason for using absolute paths ?

[jrfnl]

Closing for lack of feedback. The issue can be reopened if the OP responds.