Make CPP linter skip certain files

 - docs which document the lint and need to contain the unutterable

 - vendored code which is outside our purview

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.gitlab/linters/check-cpp.py b/.gitlab/linters/check-cpp.py
index c89451399e..c51c127379 100755
--- a/.gitlab/linters/check-cpp.py
+++ b/.gitlab/linters/check-cpp.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # A linter to warn for ASSERT macros which are separated from their argument
 # list by a space, which Clang's CPP barfs on
 
+from pathlib import Path
 from linter import run_linters, RegexpLinter
 
 linters = [
@@ -20,5 +21,11 @@ linters = [
                  message='`#if !defined(x)` is preferred to `#ifndef x`'),
 ]
 
+for l in linters:
+    # Need do document rules!
+    l.add_path_filter(lambda path: path != Path('docs', 'coding-style.html'))
+    # Don't lint vendored code
+    l.add_path_filter(lambda path: not path.name == 'config.guess')
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     run_linters(linters)