Symlinks to ignored files should be ignored

Tell us about your environment

• ESLint Version: 4.14.0
• Node Version: 9.3.0
• npm Version: 5.5.1

What parser (default, Babel-ESLint, etc.) are you using?

babel-eslint

What did you do? Please include the actual source code causing the issue, as well as the command that you used to run ESLint.

My files are stored in an src/ directory and compiled into dist/ and I use symlinks to expose some files:

dist/
src/
  |- index.js
  -- bar.js 
bar.js --> dist/bar.js

I only want to lint files in src/, not the ones output by Babel.

.gitignore:

/dist/

Command line used to run ESLint:

eslint --ignore-path .gitignore .

What did you expect to happen?

I expect ignored files to not be analyzed.

What actually happened? Please include the actual, raw output from ESLint.

ESLint finds errors in my symlink.

[not-an-aardvark]

It seems like the question is whether we decide to ignore files based on the path which is provided by the user (current behavior), or whether we decide to ignore files based on the realpaths of the files provided by the user (requested behavior).

Personally, the current behavior seems more expected to me. If a symlink exists in a directory I’m linting, I would expect ESLint to follow that symlink and lint whatever it finds, regardless of where the realpath of the file exists.

[eslint-deprecated[bot]]

Unfortunately, it looks like there wasn’t enough interest from the team or community to implement this change. While we wish we’d be able to accommodate everyone’s requests, we do need to prioritize. We’ve found that issues failing to reach accepted status after 21 days tend to never be accepted, and as such, we close those issues. This doesn’t mean the idea isn’t interesting or useful, just that it’s not something the team can commit to.

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