Filelist (to prevent a huge CLI --exclude)

[tebeso]

Just like phpcs, it would be good if we could have an argument like --filelist blabla.txt or something. From phpcs documentation: "A file containing a list of files and/or directories to check (one per line)".

I have a project at the moment and i only need to scan one folder.. but to do that, i need a huge string of excludes for the CLI. A filelist would be better and more dynamic

[tvbeek]

Hello @tebeso,

Thanks for the idea, I think it can be useful to have it as an option.

But if I read your message correct you only need to use the folders in one directory, if that is correct you can give PHPMD that path. As example: phpmd your/directory text cleancode

Are you able to create a PR for this functionality?

[tebeso]

hi @tvbeek

i actually have more than the folders in one directory and use the way you describe. The file-list would be cleaner however. The readability in our CI is quite bad if i have so long arguments and it would also be easier to do a copy and past for other projects. Another benefit would be, that devs dont have the rights to change the CI options and I need to do it for them all the time. With a file-list, they could do it on their own.