hlint -g . does not respect .gitignore

[donatello]

In my repo directory, I have dist-newstyle created by cabal in my gitignore, however hlint -g goes into this directory and returns lint errors for sources checkout by cabal inside this directory.

As a workaround I am using git ls-files | grep '.hs$' | xargs hlint.

[ndmitchell]

On my machine it runs git ls-files --cached --others --exclude-standard *.hs *.lhs. What does that command return on your machine? (You probably need to quote the *). I just pushed changes to --verbose so hlint -g -v shows what command it runs, if you want to try HEAD.

[ndmitchell]

Ah, I think hlint -g . is saying test all files found by --git AND test all files found by . - together which is everything. As it happens #780 was fixed a few days ago, which likely means that . will start ignoring dist-newstyle anyway.

[donatello]

Ah I see, I didn't realize that providing a directory/file argument was optional, but it's clear from the --help message now. hlint -g works fine for me. Closing this. Thanks your quick response!