Php_codesniffer: cli option to ignore (sym)links ?

[flobee]

Hi! And thank you you exist! :)
Now i have to request if there is a possibility to ignore files beeing scaned which are symlinked to project paths.
Kind regards

[gsherwood]

I think you're the first person to ever ask for symlinks to not be followed 😄

There is no way currently, but I'd be happy to support it. But unless there is a bunch of people asking for this, or a PR is sent, it's not likely to get done for a while. The backlog is huge.

[flobee]

:) funny, how do people work now? I was wondering... because its the symlink of composers vendor/ or deeper (sub projects) which makes me asking. :)

[geoffr]

Have the same problem: scanning many sites, some have been hacked and have a symlink to / this causes php-codesniffer to loop forever :(

[jacobmc]

+1 for the ability to ignore symlinks

[flobee]

@JacobMC i solved it using shell scripts and using an ignorline to pipe it to --ignore=YOUR_PATH,THAT_PATH,OTHER_PATH