The super-linter finds issues and reports them to the console output. Fixes are suggested in the console output but not automatically fixed, and a status check will show up as failed on the pull request.
The design of the **Super-Linter** is currently to allow linting to occur in **GitHub Actions** as a part of continuous integration occurring on pull requests as the commits get pushed. It works best when commits are being pushed early and often to a branch with an open or draft pull request. There is some desire to move this closer to local development for faster feedback on linting errors but this is not yet supported.
**NOTE:** If you pass the _Environment_ variable `GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}` in your workflow, then the **GitHub Super-Linter** will mark the status of each individual linter run in the Checks section of a pull request. Without this you will only see the overall status of the full run. There is no need to set the **GitHub** Secret as it is automatically set by GitHub, it only needs to be passed to the action.
| **OUTPUT_FORMAT** | `none` | The report format to be generated, besides the stdout one. Output format of tap is currently using v13 of the specification. Supported formats: tap |
| **OUTPUT_FOLDER** | `super-linter.report` | The location where the output reporting will be generated to. Output folder must not previously exist. |
| **OUTPUT_DETAILS** | `simpler` | What level of details to be reported. Supported formats: simpler or detailed. |
| **VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE** | `true` | Will parse the entire repository and find all files to validate across all types. **NOTE:** When set to `false`, only **new** or **edited** files will be parsed for validation. |
| **VALIDATE_ANSIBLE** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Ansible language. |
| **VALIDATE_ARM** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the ARM language. |
| **VALIDATE_BASH** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Bash language. |
| **VALIDATE_CSS** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the CSS language. |
| **VALIDATE_DART** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Dart language. |
| **VALIDATE_DOCKERFILE** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Docker language. |
| **VALIDATE_DOCKERFILE_HADOLINT** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Docker language. |
| **VALIDATE_EDITORCONFIG** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process with the editorconfig. |
| **VALIDATE_ENV** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the ENV language. |
| **VALIDATE_GO** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Golang language. |
| **VALIDATE_GROOVY** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language. |
| **VALIDATE_HTML** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the HTML language. |
| **VALIDATE_JAVA** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language. |
| **VALIDATE_JAVASCRIPT_ES** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Javascript language. (Utilizing: eslint) |
| **VALIDATE_JAVASCRIPT_STANDARD** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Javascript language. (Utilizing: standard) |
| **VALIDATE_JSON** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the JSON language. |
| **VALIDATE_JSX** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process for jsx files (Utilizing: eslint) |
| **VALIDATE_KOTLIN** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Kotlin language. |
| **VALIDATE_LATEX** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the LaTeX language. |
| **VALIDATE_LUA** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the language. |
| **VALIDATE_MD** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Markdown language. |
| **VALIDATE_OPENAPI** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the OpenAPI language. |
| **VALIDATE_PERL** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Perl language. |
| **VALIDATE_PHP** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the PHP language. (Utilizing: PHP built-in linter) (keep for backward compatibility) |
| **VALIDATE_PHP_BUILTIN** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the PHP language. (Utilizing: PHP built-in linter) |
| **VALIDATE_PHP_PHPCS** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the PHP language. (Utilizing: PHP CodeSniffer) |
| **VALIDATE_PHP_PHPSTAN** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the PHP language. (Utilizing: PHPStan) |
| **VALIDATE_PHP_PSALM** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the PHP language. (Utilizing: PSalm) |
| **VALIDATE_PROTOBUF** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Protobuf language. |
| **VALIDATE_PYTHON** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Python language. (Utilizing: pylint) (keep for backward compatibility) |
| **VALIDATE_PYTHON_PYLINT** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Python language. (Utilizing: pylint) |
| **VALIDATE_PYTHON_FLAKE8** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Python language. (Utilizing: flake8) |
| **VALIDATE_PYTHON_BLACK** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Python language. (Utilizing: black) |
| **VALIDATE_POWERSHELL** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Powershell language. |
| **VALIDATE_R** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the R language. |
| **VALIDATE_RAKU** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Raku language. |
| **VALIDATE_RUBY** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Ruby language. |
You can use the **GitHub****Super-Linter**_with_ or _without_ your own personal rules sets. This allows for greater flexibility for each individual code base. The Template rules all try to follow the standards we believe should be enabled at the basic level.
- If your repository does not have rules files, they will fall back to defaults in [this repository's `TEMPLATE` folder](https://github.com/github/super-linter/tree/master/TEMPLATES)
If you need to disable certain _rules_ and _functionality_, you can view [Disable Rules](https://github.com/github/super-linter/blob/master/docs/disabling-linters.md)
If you need to lint only a folder or exclude some files from linting, you can use optional environment parameters `FILTER_REGEX_INCLUDE` and `FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE`
If you find that you need to run super-linter locally, you can follow the documentation at [Running super-linter locally](https://github.com/github/super-linter/blob/master/docs/run-linter-locally.md)
Check out the [note](#how-it-works) in **How it Works** to understand more about the **Super-Linter** linting locally versus via continuous integration.
You can checkout this repository using [Container Remote Development](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers), and debug the linter using the `Test Linter` task.
If you would like to help contribute to this **GitHub** Action, please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/github/super-linter/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)