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.
_Note:_ IF you did not use `Lint Code Base` as GitHub Action name, please read [GitHub Actions Badges documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/configuring-and-managing-workflows/configuring-a-workflow#adding-a-workflow-status-badge-to-your-repository)
| **ANSIBLE_DIRECTORY** | `/ansible` | Flag to set the root directory for Ansible file location(s), relative to `DEFAULT_WORKSPACE`. Set to `.` to use the top-level of the `DEFAULT_WORKSPACE`. |
| **EDITORCONFIG_FILE_NAME** | `.ecrc` | Filename for [editorconfig-checker configuration](https://github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker) |
| **ERROR_ON_MISSING_EXEC_BIT** | `false` | If set to `false`, the `bash-exec` linter will report a warning if a shell script is not executable. If set to `true`, the `bash-exec` linter will report an error instead. |
| **FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE** | `none` | Regular expression defining which files will be excluded from linting (ex: `.*src/test.*`) |
| **FILTER_REGEX_INCLUDE** | `all` | Regular expression defining which files will be processed by linters (ex: `.*src/.*`) |
| **GITHUB_DOMAIN** | `github.com` | Specify a custom Github domain in case Github Enterprise is used: e.g. `github.myenterprise.com` |
| **GITHUB_CUSTOM_API_URL** | `api.github.com` | Specify a custom Github API URL in case Github Enterprise is used: e.g. `https://github.myenterprise.com/api/v3/` |
| **KUBERNETES_KUBEVAL_OPTIONS** | `null` | Additional arguments to pass to the command line when running **Kubernetes Kubeval** (Example: --ignore-missing-schemas) |
| **LINTER_RULES_PATH** | `.github/linters` | Directory for all linter configuration rules. |
| **LOG_FILE** | `super-linter.log` | The file name for outputting logs. All output is sent to the log file regardless of `LOG_LEVEL`. |
| **LOG_LEVEL** | `VERBOSE` | How much output the script will generate to the console. One of `ERROR`, `WARN`, `NOTICE`, `VERBOSE`, `DEBUG` or `TRACE`. |
| **MULTI_STATUS** | `true` | A status API is made for each language that is linted to make visual parsing easier. |
| **SSL_CERT_SECRET** | `none` | SSL cert to add to the **Super-Linter** trust store. This is needed for users on `self-hosted` runners or need to inject the cert for security standards (ex. ${{ secrets.SSL_CERT }}) |
| **USE_FIND_ALGORITHM** | `false` | By default, we use `git diff` to find all files in the workspace and what has been updated, this would enable the Linux `find` method instead to find all files to lint |
| **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_BASH_EXEC** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Bash language to validate if file is stored as executable. |
| **VALIDATE_CSHARP** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the C# 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_GHERKIN** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Gherkin 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_JSCPD** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the JSCPD. |
| **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_KUBERNETES_KUBEVAL** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of Kubernetes descriptors with Kubeval |
| **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_MARKDOWN** | `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_BLACK** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Python language. (Utilizing: black) |
| **VALIDATE_PYTHON_FLAKE8** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Python language. (Utilizing: flake8) |
| **VALIDATE_PYTHON_ISORT** | `true` | Flag to enable or disable the linting process of the Python language. (Utilizing: isort) |
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 your repository contains your own rules files that live outside of a ``.github/linters/`` directory, you will have to tell Super-Linter where your rules files are located in your repository, and what their file names are. To learn more, see [Using your own rules files](docs/using-rules-files.md).
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.
And this Guided Exploration: [GitLab CI CD Extension for Super-Linter](https://gitlab.com/guided-explorations/ci-cd-plugin-extensions/ci-cd-plugin-extension-github-action-super-linter)
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 need to inject a SSL cert into the trust store, you will need to first copy the cert to **GitHub Secrets**
Once you have copied the plain text certificate into **GitHub Secrets**, you can use the variable `SSL_CERT_SECRET` to point the **Super-Linter** to the files contents.
Once found, it will load the certificate contents to a file, and to the trust store.
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)
