[Question] What is the reason to drop support for absolute paths in file patterns?

[petertrr]

I'm seeing the new exception at

ktlint/ktlint/src/main/kotlin/com/pinterest/ktlint/internal/FileUtils.kt

Line 89 in 7e2c7fd

"KtLint does not support absolute path in globs:\n${joinToString(separator = "\n")}"

, as well as a note in release notes that ktlint dropped support for absolute paths in patterns starting from 0.41.0. I understand that this is because of migration to PathMatcher, but I don't quite understand the reason for this particular restriction.
Is it a permanent decision or can this behavior be altered in future releases? Or does it break something in expected workflow?

[orchestr7]

My understanding is that some complex platforms that unify different static analyzers can be affected by this change.
In most cases such platforms are using absolute paths to files to unify different static analysis in one system.

[rohandhruva]

As mentioned in the issue description, the README and the attached PR#999 is really vague on the details. I might have missed some of the documentation around it, but I also don't see a way to match against a path using the regex: prefix. Was this eventually dropped?

I would also like to know if there are any plans to bring back this functionality. I'm not sure how popular the negated blobs feature was, but it seems like a really expensive bargain if we can no longer specify full path files. This makes it extremely hard to use ktlint in a mono-repo which has other languages and corresponding tools already integrated. The two attached issues from bazelbuild/rules_kotlin seem to be hinting at the same.

Would you please reconsider adding back support for full path matches? Maybe even behind a CLI flag if needed...?

[adsharma]

ktlint -F /tmp/foo.kt 

fails as well. No globs involved.

[shashachu]

Hi folks, we'll look into this, as it sounds like it's blocking a number of people from upgrading.

[orchestr7]

Thanks @shashachu! this will be brilliant :)
We can also help with that if needed

[kentr0w]

Is it expected to be fixed in new reales?