Automatically ignore ansible vault files #478
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Ansible vaults are YAML files which are not parsable because they are encrypted with a password.
An example Ansible vault look like this :
When launching yamllint on this file we've got :
Unfortunately adding the document start marker to such files would render the vault file unreadable by the
ansible-vault
command :So the attached commit makes yamllint ignore Ansible vault files :
As an alternative, such files could be decrypted on the fly before being linted, but this would be much more complex.