ansible-lint --fix scope is harmful

[andrewimeson]

Summary

The --fix feature dealing with formatting of YAML is scope creep beyond what I want a tool named ansible-lint to do. I don't want ansible-lint linting YAML form (I run yamllint separately so that I can lint non-Ansible files, and have clear separation of tools), but at least I can disable that and it gets out of the way.

I handle YAML auto-formatting with a separate tool (yamlfix or Prettier). I would expect ansible-lint --fix to only fix Ansible-specific issues, but it reformats the whole file. I don't even use the feature because it's incompatible with my YAML formatting and linting tools.

Since #4139 and #4158, I have to deal with a warning that I can't suppress because of a feature that has a scope beyond what it should.

Please consider whittling down the feature to remove YAML formatting concerns and instead recommend other tools for that purpose. At a minimum, the warning about incompatible yamllint settings should be suppressible.

Issue Type

• Bug Report