Nitpick

Command-line tool and flake8 plugin to enforce the same settings across multiple language-independent projects.

Useful if you maintain multiple projects and are tired of copying/pasting the same INI/TOML/YAML/JSON keys and values over and over, in all of them.

The CLI now has a nitpick fix command that modifies configuration files directly (pretty much like black and isort do with Python files). See Command-line interface for more info.

Many more features are planned for the future, check the roadmap.

Note

This project is still a work in progress, so the API is not fully defined:

• The style file syntax might have changes before the 1.0 stable release;

• The numbers in the NIP* error codes might change; don’t fully rely on them;

• See also Breaking changes.

Contents:

• Quickstart
  • Install
  • Run
  • Run as a pre-commit hook
  • Run as a MegaLinter plugin
  • Modify files directly
• Styles
  • The style file
  • Configure your own style
  • Default search order for a style
  • Style file syntax
  • Special configurations
    • Comparing elements on lists
  • Breaking changes
    • missing_message key was removed
• Configuration
  • Remote style
  • Style inside Python package
  • Cache
    • Expiring after a predefined time
    • Forever
    • Never
    • Clearing
  • Local style
  • Multiple styles
  • Override a remote style
• Library (Presets)
  • any
  • javascript
  • kotlin
  • presets
  • proto
  • python
  • shell
• The [nitpick] section
  • Minimum version
  • [nitpick.files]
    • Files that should exist
    • Files that should be deleted
    • Comma separated values
  • [nitpick.styles]
• Command-line interface
  • Main options
  • fix: Modify files directly
  • check: Don’t modify, just print the differences
  • ls: List configures files
  • init: Initialise a configuration file
• Flake8 plugin
  • Pre-commit hook and flake8
    • Why always_run: true?
  • Root dir of the project
  • Main Python file
• Plugins
  • INI files
  • JSON files
  • Text files
  • TOML files
  • YAML files
• Troubleshooting
  • Crash on multi-threading
  • ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘nitpick.plugins.XXX’
  • Executable .tox/lint/bin/pylint not found
  • Missing rev key when using the default pre-commit styles
• Contributing
  • Bug reports or feature requests
  • Documentation improvements
  • Development
    • Commit convention
    • Pull Request Guidelines
• Authors

API Reference:

• nitpick

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

To Do List