Support excluding directories

[ghost]

Hello,

I'd like to run htmllint on my project. However, running htmllint **/*.html gives a lot of false positives since it lints also the HTML files of the project dependencies stored in ./node_modules. The only workaround I can think of is to list all the directories (e.g. foo/**/*.html, bar/**/*.html) and the top-level HTML files (i.e. *.html). But with this approach, there is a big chance that I'll forget to add a newly created directories in the future and I won't notice that they are not linted.

It would be nice if there was a way to list directories/globs that should be excluded (like what you can do with .gitignore).

[ghost]

OK, I don't need this any more (an extended glob pattern is enough in my case). But maybe someone else does...

[kevincolten]

@radek-holy What's the glob pattern you used?

I ended up having to fork the repo to hard ignore file names containing node_modules in a pinch
kevincolten@5901ac1

and having to run htmllint {*.html,./**/*.html}

[Nxt3]

You can just do htmllint $(find /directories /you /want /to /search -name '*.html)

I avoid node_modules like this: htmllint $(find /app -name '*.html)

[dietergeerts]

Any plans on including the possibility to use .gitignore? eslint and stylelint have the option

[iansantagata]

Late to the party, but for anyone looking for a static glob pattern without having to use find and if your node_modules are in the root repository, you can do this:

htmllint {,!(node_modules)/**/}*.html

Would be nice if this could be supported by a feature like --ignore-path <path> similar to ESLint though.