Add ChangeLog entry, new test and documentation for searching .pylintrc in the current folder.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index da8cc9a..29cbc87 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ ChangeLog for Pylint
       to assume that the user knows what he is doing rather than emitting
       a message which can be considered a false positive.
 
+    * Look for a .pylintrc configuration file in the current folder,
+      if pylintrc is not found. Dotted pylintrc files will not be searched
+      in the parents of the current folder, as it is done for pylintrc.
+
 
 2015-03-14 -- 1.4.3
 
diff --git a/doc/run.rst b/doc/run.rst
index 85db098..68bc8fd 100644
--- a/doc/run.rst
+++ b/doc/run.rst
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ command line using the ``--rcfile`` option.  Otherwise, Pylint searches for a
 configuration file in the following order and uses the first one it finds:
 
 #. ``pylintrc`` in the current working directory
+# ``.pylintrc`` in the current working directory
 #. If the current working directory is in a Python module, Pylint searches \
    up the hierarchy of Python modules until it finds a ``pylintrc`` file. \
    This allows you to specify coding standards on a module-by-module \
diff --git a/pylint/test/unittest_lint.py b/pylint/test/unittest_lint.py
index 80c242f..92a5c1e 100644
--- a/pylint/test/unittest_lint.py
+++ b/pylint/test/unittest_lint.py
@@ -538,7 +538,8 @@ class ConfigTC(unittest.TestCase):
         with tempdir() as chroot:
 
             create_files(['a/pylintrc', 'a/b/__init__.py', 'a/b/pylintrc',
-                          'a/b/c/__init__.py', 'a/b/c/d/__init__.py'])
+                          'a/b/c/__init__.py', 'a/b/c/d/__init__.py',
+                          'a/b/c/d/e/.pylintrc'])
             fake_home = tempfile.mkdtemp('fake-home')
             home = os.environ[HOME]
             try:
@@ -551,6 +552,7 @@ class ConfigTC(unittest.TestCase):
                        'a/b'     : join(chroot, 'a', 'b', 'pylintrc'),
                        'a/b/c'   : join(chroot, 'a', 'b', 'pylintrc'),
                        'a/b/c/d' : join(chroot, 'a', 'b', 'pylintrc'),
+                       'a/b/c/d/e' : join(chroot, 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', '.pylintrc'),
                        }
             for basedir, expected in results.items():
                 os.chdir(join(chroot, basedir))