format of FILE as in --exclude-file=FILE

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

What is the format of FILE as in --exclude-file=FILE?

Is it perhaps of the form "file:line"? If so, I suggest fixing the help message from:

  -x FILE, --exclude-file=FILE
                        FILE with lines that should not be changed

to:

  -x FILE, --exclude-file=FILE
                        FILE with file:line pairs that should not be changed

That would avoid misunderstandings such as #1601 (comment) and codespell-project/actions-codespell#33 (comment).

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

After reading the source code, It appears it's really simple line numbers in the file, not specific to a file. So if you want to exclude line 100 of a specific file, you cannot but exclude line 100 of all files.

[peternewman]

It's the whole line, not the line number. See #2052 for work to fix this.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Ah, I see. Sorry about that. Then let's follow up in #2052.