"1:1 error Cannot process specified file: it’s ignored" with remark@3

[jeddy3]

Hello.

Given the following lerna directory structure:

packages
  package1 
    node_modules
    package.json
    README.md 
  package2
    node_modules
    package.json
    README.md
.gitignore
.remarkrc
package.json
README.md

Where .remarkrc contains:

{
  "plugins": [
    "preset-lint-recommended",
    "preset-lint-consistent"
  ]
}

And the root package.json contains:

{
  "scripts": {
    "lint:md": "remark '**/*.md' --ignore-path .gitignore --quiet --frail",
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "remark-cli": "3.0.0",
    "remark-preset-lint-consistent": "2.0.0",
    "remark-preset-lint-recommended": "2.0.0",
  }
}

And .gitignore contains:

.DS_Store
.env
dist
lerna-debug.log
node_modules
npm-debug.log
coverage

Running npm run lint:md returns a few thousand of the same error (I believe one for each markdown files within the node_modules directories, e.g.:

packages/website/node_modules/leveldown/README.md
  1:1  error  Cannot process specified file: it’s ignored

Whereas the same setup (albeit with a remark-cli@2 configuration object) threw no errors.

I've taken a poke around, but I'm struggling to see what might be causing it. Am I missing something obvious?

[wooorm]

The previous version did some magic things there, which caused problems.

Thing is that your globs match those files, and your ignore file says to ignore them. remark doesn’t know what to do in that case, so it warns.

Is there any reason not to pass . instead of the glob? A different file-finding mechanism kicks in then, which should work properly!

[jeddy3]

Is there any reason not to pass . instead of the glob?

Nope, no particular reason. Using . worked great. Thank you for the very quick reply :)

[wooorm]

Great. Sure no problem, thanks for using remark!

[theetrain]

I am also facing this issue. Given there are changes in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/defect_template.md, I have:

.remarkignore

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/**

When running remark --quiet --frail ., I also see the error:

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/defect_template.md
1:1  error  Cannot process specified file: it’s ignored