--ignore does not behave as expected (reopening issue #222)

[k1eran]

Describe the bug
Quoting stale issue #222

While there is an option called --ignore it does not seem to have the desired effect. No matter which paths I add files from those directories are still listed with errors.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

npx htmlhint gui/src/**/*.html --ignore="gui/src/assets/help/"

shows issues in gui/src/assets/help/en/some/file that should be hidden

Expected behavior
ignore supported as described in docs

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Additional context
See comment from groenroos commented on Apr 7, 2022.

This is still an issue, and should be re-opened. As it is a documented feature, it should also be prevented from going stale.

with 4 likes

[hyperupcall]

A related issue is that the treatment of single argument --ignore is naive with how it interprets the value. It interprets , as a glob separator, but , is used by globs in various expansions: --ignore='.{m,git,hg}ignore'.