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Vale Linter

v2.0.1

Vale Linter

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Vale Linter

The official GitHub Action for Vale -- install, manage, and run Vale with ease

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Vale Linter

uses: errata-ai/[email protected]

Learn more about this action in errata-ai/vale-action

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GitHub Actions + Vale

:octocat: The official GitHub Action for Vale -- install, manage, and run Vale with ease.

A demo screenshot.

Usage

Add the following (or similar) to one of your .github/workflows files:

name: reviewdog
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  vale:
    name: runner / vale
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: errata-ai/vale-action@reviewdog
        env:
          # Required, set by GitHub actions automatically:
          # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#about-the-github_token-secret
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

Repository Structure

The recommended repository structure makes use of the existing .github directory to hold all of our Vale-related resources:

.github
├── styles
│   └── vocab.txt
└── workflows
    └── main.yml
.vale.ini
...

Where styles represents your StylesPath. The top-level .vale.ini file should reference this directory:

StylesPath = .github/styles
MinAlertLevel = suggestion

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale

Inputs

You can further customize the linting processing by providing one of the following optional inputs.

version (default: latest)

NOTE: The provided version must be >= 2.16.0.

Specify the Vale CLI version to use.

with:
  version: 2.17.0

files (default: all)

files specifies where Vale will look for files to lint.

with:
  files: path/to/lint

You can supply this value one of three ways:

  • files: all (default): The repo's root directory; equivalent to calling vale ..

  • files: path/to/lint: A single file or directory; equivalent to calling vale path/to/lint.

  • files: '["input1", "input2"]': A list of file or directory arguments; equivalent to calling vale input1 input2.

reporter (default: github-check)

Set the reporter type.

with:
  # github-pr-check, github-pr-review, github-check
  reporter: github-pr-check

fail_on_error (default: false)

By default, reviewdog will return exit code 0 even if it finds errors. If fail_on_error is enabled, reviewdog exits with 1 when at least one error was reported.

with:
  fail_on_error: true

filter_mode (default: added)

Set the filter mode for reviewdog.

with:
  # added, diff_context, file, nofilter
  filter_mode: nofilter

vale_flags (default: "")

Space-delimited list of flags for the Vale CLI.

with:
  vale_flags: "--glob='*.txt'"