Annoying ".ansible" cache dir gets created in my project everytime I run ansible-lint

[claf]

Can someone help me understand what is the purpose of this directory? It's only empty directories, it forces me to cleanup after I lint my code.

From my previous experience with linter, I don't remember a linting tool that modified anything in my project unless explicitly asked to.

How can I get rid of this ?

$> tree .ansible/                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
.ansible/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
├── collections                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
├── modules                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
└── roles                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
4 directories, 0 files 

[claf]

would it be possible to get any kind of answer on this?

[sean-m-sullivan]

I also have this problem we added
- name: Remove .ansible folder
run: rm -rf .ansible

in our tooling because it was indeed annoying

[ssbarnea]

Add the .ansible to your .gitignore. That is the temporary folder used for testing tools. It ensures that the tools will not modify or be influenced by your user config ~/.ansible folder.

[claf]

Doesn't look temporary at all to me ... why don't you at least delete it at the end if it's still empty?