--exclude-list doesn't seem to work on folders

[nschonni]

As part of the discussion in #330, I was testing the --exclude-list inside .csslintrc and directly from the CLI.

$ csslint . --exclude-list=build/

csslint: No errors in ./build/lib/vendors-9180e3f10adb49bf0394b66191b58ba7/gems/
compass-0.12.2/test/fixtures/stylesheets/blueprint/css/ie.css.

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[nzakas]

Assuming you are using 0.9.10?

@jklein - would you mind taking a look?

[nschonni]

Yes, 0.9.10, tested on 2 Windows machines both with bash shell and dos.

[jklein]

I'll look at this shortly, but in the meantime can you try using an absolute path?

[nschonni]

Using an absolute patch doesn't help

C:\Workspace\wet-boew>csslint --exlude-list=C:\Workspace\wet-boew\build\  .                                                                                                                                                                

csslint: There are 7 problems in ./build/lib/vendors-9180e3f10adb49bf0394b66191b58ba7/gems/compass-0.12.2/test/fixtures/stylesheets/blueprint/css/ie.css.

ie.css                                                                                                                                                   
1: warning at line 4, col 13
Values of 0 shouldn't have units specified.
    margin: 0px -8px 16px 0;

[jklein]

Okay so this is a bug, or more realistically a fragile implementation of this functionality. Basically the matching between the exclude list and the list of files to list isn't as robust as one might like, and you need to specify the files in the correct way. So the workaround is to do:

csslint . --exclude-list=./build

Not ideal. I'll work on improving this and submit a patch, but in the meantime this should get you up and running. Essentially the prefix that is going to go in front of all of the files to be linted (in this case ./) must go in front of all of the files that are being excluded.