Configure Credo to use global .credo.exs file

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Several projects are being added under the same umbrella project, and some of them leverage credo.

The docs mention that:

Credo is configured via a file called .credo.exs. This file can live in your project’s config/ or root folder, both is fine.

In the sub-apps, how can Credo be configured to use the same, global .credo.exs file, say from the root of the umbrella project?

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Easiest would be to symlink it for now and file an issue at credits Github page requesting this feature.

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I’m doing this in ibGib with placing the credo file in the umbrella’s config directory and installing credo as a dependency in the individual apps. I don’t think there is anything else to configure it, but I’m not finding where documentation says to do this.

Works like a charm (just changed the function arity max yesterday). :smile:

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For more context:

Credo traverses your tree back up until your home dir. At each step of the way it looks for ./.credo.exs as well as ./config/.credo.exs. It then merges those configs recursively, with those “nearer” to your cwd taking precedence.

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I edited the README to reflect the umbrella use case: https://github.com/rrrene/credo/blob/master/README.md#configuration-via-credoexs

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