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Lint your code using regex patterns, e.g. to check for copyright headers.

To activate this with the `lint` goal, you must set `[regex-lint].config`.

Unlike other linters, this can run on files not owned by targets, such as BUILD files. To run on those, use `lint '**'` rather than `lint ::`, for example. Unfortunately, `--changed-since=<sha>` does not yet cause this linter to run. We are exploring how to improve both these gotchas.

Backend: <span style="color: purple"><code>pants.backend.project_info</code></span> Config section: <span style="color: purple"><code>[sourcefile-validation]</code></span>

## Basic options

<div style="color: purple"> <h3><code>config</code></h3> <code>--sourcefile-validation-config=&quot;{'key1': val1, 'key2': val2, ...}&quot;</code><br> <code>PANTS_SOURCEFILE_VALIDATION_CONFIG</code><br> </div> <div style="padding-left: 2em;"> <span style="color: green">default: <code>{}</code></span>

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Config schema is as follows:



Meaning: if a file matches some path pattern, its content must match all the corresponding content patterns.

It's often helpful to load this config from a JSON or YAML file. To do that, set `[regex-lint].config = '@path/to/config.yaml'`, for example.

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<div style="color: purple"> <h3><code>detail_level</code></h3> <code>--sourcefile-validation-detail-level=&lt;DetailLevel&gt;</code><br> <code>PANTS_SOURCEFILE_VALIDATION_DETAIL_LEVEL</code><br> </div> <div style="padding-left: 2em;"> <span style="color: green">one of: <code>none, summary, nonmatching, names, all</code></span><br> <span style="color: green">default: <code>nonmatching</code></span>

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How much detail to include in the result.

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## Advanced options

None

## Deprecated options

None