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Josh Soref bf16e10baf Updates for check-spelling v0.0.25 (#40386)
## Summary of the Pull Request

- #39572 updated check-spelling but ignored:
   > 🐣 Breaking Changes
[Code Scanning action requires a Code Scanning
Ruleset](https://github.com/check-spelling/check-spelling/wiki/Breaking-Change:-Code-Scanning-action-requires-a-Code-Scanning-Ruleset)
If you use SARIF reporting, then instead of the workflow yielding an 
when it fails, it will rely on [github-advanced-security
🤖](https://github.com/apps/github-advanced-security) to report the
failure. You will need to adjust your checks for PRs.

This means that check-spelling hasn't been properly doing its job 😦.

I'm sorry, I should have pushed a thing to this repo earlier,...

Anyway, as with most refreshes, this comes with a number of fixes, some
are fixes for typos that snuck in before the 0.0.25 upgrade, some are
for things that snuck in after, some are based on new rules in
spell-check-this, and some are hand written patterns based on running
through this repository a few times.

About the 🐣 **breaking change**: someone needs to create a ruleset for
this repository (see [Code Scanning action requires a Code Scanning
Ruleset: Sample ruleset

](https://github.com/check-spelling/check-spelling/wiki/Breaking-Change:-Code-Scanning-action-requires-a-Code-Scanning-Ruleset#sample-ruleset)).

The alternative to adding a ruleset is to change the condition to not
use sarif for this repository. In general, I think the github
integration from sarif is prettier/more helpful, so I think that it's
the better choice.

You can see an example of it working in:
- https://github.com/check-spelling-sandbox/PowerToys/pull/23

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Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <2119212+jsoref@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <migrie@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Dustin L. Howett <dustin@howett.net>
2025-07-08 17:16:52 -05:00
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2023-11-02 17:16:29 +00:00
2022-11-29 11:41:22 -08:00

check-spelling/check-spelling configuration

File Purpose Format Info
allow.txt Add words to the dictionary one word per line (only letters and 's allowed) allow
reject.txt Remove words from the dictionary (after allow) grep pattern matching whole dictionary words reject
excludes.txt Files to ignore entirely perl regular expression excludes
only.txt Only check matching files (applied after excludes) perl regular expression only
patterns.txt Patterns to ignore from checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
candidate.patterns Patterns that might be worth adding to patterns.txt perl regular expression with optional comment block introductions (all matches will be suggested) candidates
line_forbidden.patterns Patterns to flag in checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
expect.txt Expected words that aren't in the dictionary one word per line (sorted, alphabetically) expect
advice.md Supplement for GitHub comment when unrecognized words are found GitHub Markdown advice

Note: you can replace any of these files with a directory by the same name (minus the suffix) and then include multiple files inside that directory (with that suffix) to merge multiple files together.