Remove progressive mode

.ansible-lint

@@ -86,11 +86,6 @@ warn_list:
 # Offline mode disables installation of requirements.yml and schema refreshing
 offline: true
 
-# Return success if number of violations compared with previous git
-# commit has not increased. This feature works only in git
-# repositories.
-progressive: false
-
 # Define required Ansible's variables to satisfy syntax check
 extra_vars:
   foo: bar

.github/workflows/tox.yml

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
       WSLENV: FORCE_COLOR:PYTEST_REQPASS:TOXENV:GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
       # Number of expected test passes, safety measure for accidental skip of
       # tests. Update value if you add/remove tests.
-      PYTEST_REQPASS: 795
+      PYTEST_REQPASS: 794
     steps:
       - name: Activate WSL1
         if: "contains(matrix.shell, 'wsl')"

.gitignore

@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ pip-wheel-metadata
 # mypy
 .mypy_cache
 
-# .cache is used by progressive mode
-.cache
-
 # Generated by setuptools-scm
 src/ansiblelint/_version.py
 
@@ -59,6 +56,7 @@ test/fixtures/formatting-before/
 examples/playbooks/vars/strings.transformed.yml
 
 # other
+.cache
 .DS_Store
 .vscode
 .idea

docs/usage.md

@@ -40,24 +40,18 @@ Ansible-lint creates a new cache on the next invocation.
 You should add the `.cache` folder to the `.gitignore` file in your git
 repositories.
 
-## Using progressive mode (deprecated)
-
-!!! warning
-
-    This feature is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.
-    We encourage you to use [ignore file](configuring.md#ignoring-rules-for-entire-files)
-    instead.
-
-For easier adoption, Ansible-lint can alert for rule violations that occur since
-the last commit. This allows new code to be merged without any rule violations
-while allowing content developers to address historical violations at a
-different pace.
-
-The `--progressive` option runs Ansible-lint twice if rule violations exist in
-your content. The second run is performed against a temporary git working copy
-that contains the last commit. Rule violations that exist in the last commit are
-ignored and Ansible-lint displays only the violations that exist in the new
-commit.
+# Gradual adoption
+
+For an easier gradual adoption, adopters should consider [ignore
+file][configuring.md#ignoring-rules-for-entire-files] feature. This allows the
+quick introduction of a linter pipeline for preventing addition of new
+violations, while known violations are ignored. Some people can work on
+addressing these historical violations while others may continue to work on
+other maintenance tasks.
+
+The deprecated `--progressive` mode was removed in v6.16.0 as it added code
+complexity and performance overhead. It also presented several corner cases
+where it failed to work as expected and caused false negatives.
 
 ## Linting playbooks and roles
 

src/ansiblelint/__main__.py

@@ -226,11 +226,6 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:  # noqa: C901
     _logger.debug("Options: %s", options)
     _logger.debug(os.getcwd())
 
-    if options.progressive:
-        _logger.warning(
-            "Progressive mode is deprecated and will be removed in next major version, use ignore files instead: https://ansible-lint.readthedocs.io/configuring/#ignoring-rules-for-entire-files",
-        )
-
     if not options.offline:
         # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
         from ansiblelint.schemas import refresh_schemas
@@ -261,38 +256,6 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:  # noqa: C901
         _do_transform(result, options)
 
     mark_as_success = True
-    if result.matches and options.progressive:
-        mark_as_success = False
-        _logger.info(
-            "Matches found, running again on previous revision in order to detect regressions",
-        )
-        with _previous_revision():
-            _logger.debug("Options: %s", options)
-            _logger.debug(os.getcwd())
-            old_result = _get_matches(rules, options)
-            # remove old matches from current list
-            matches_delta = list(set(result.matches) - set(old_result.matches))
-            if len(matches_delta) == 0:
-                _logger.warning(
-                    "Total violations not increased since previous "
-                    "commit, will mark result as success. (%s -> %s)",
-                    len(old_result.matches),
-                    len(matches_delta),
-                )
-                mark_as_success = True
-
-            ignored = 0
-            for match in result.matches:
-                # if match is not new, mark is as ignored
-                if match not in matches_delta:
-                    match.ignored = True
-                    ignored += 1
-            if ignored:
-                _logger.warning(
-                    "Marked %s previously known violation(s) as ignored due to"
-                    " progressive mode.",
-                    ignored,
-                )
 
     if options.strict and result.matches:
         mark_as_success = False

src/ansiblelint/app.py

@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ def report_outcome(self, result: LintResult, mark_as_success: bool = False) -> i
                 "because 'yaml' is in 'skip_list'.",
             )
 
-        if mark_as_success and summary.failures and not self.options.progressive:
+        if mark_as_success and summary.failures:
             mark_as_success = False
 
         if not self.options.quiet:

src/ansiblelint/cli.py

@@ -293,15 +293,6 @@ def get_cli_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         action="store_true",
         help="parseable output, same as '-f pep8'",
     )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--progressive",
-        dest="progressive",
-        default=False,
-        action="store_true",
-        help="Return success if number of violations compared with "
-        "previous git commit has not increased. This feature works "
-        "only in git repositories.",
-    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--project-dir",
         dest="project_dir",
@@ -472,7 +463,6 @@ def merge_config(file_config: dict[Any, Any], cli_config: Options) -> Options:
         "quiet",
         "strict",
         "use_default_rules",
-        "progressive",
         "offline",
     )
     # maps lists to their default config values

src/ansiblelint/config.py

@@ -132,10 +132,7 @@ class Options:  # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes,too-few-public-me
     enable_list: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
     skip_action_validation: bool = True
     strict: bool = False
-    rules: dict[
-        str,
-        Any,
-    ] = field(
+    rules: dict[str, Any] = field(
         default_factory=dict,
     )  # Placeholder to set and keep configurations for each rule.
     profile: str | None = None
@@ -144,7 +141,6 @@ class Options:  # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes,too-few-public-me
     config_file: str | None = None
     generate_ignore: bool = False
     rulesdir: list[Path] = field(default_factory=list)
-    progressive: bool = False
     cache_dir_lock: FileLock | None = None
     use_default_rules: bool = False
     version: bool = False  # display version command

src/ansiblelint/file_utils.py

@@ -284,13 +284,8 @@ def get(self, key: Any, default: Any = None) -> Any:
 
     def _populate_content_cache_from_disk(self) -> None:
         # Can raise UnicodeDecodeError
-        try:
-            self._content = self.path.expanduser().resolve().read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-        except FileNotFoundError as exc:
-            if vars(options).get("progressive"):
-                self._content = ""
-            else:
-                raise exc
+        self._content = self.path.expanduser().resolve().read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
         if self._original_content is None:
             self._original_content = self._content
 

src/ansiblelint/schemas/__store__.json

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible-lint/main/src/ansiblelint/schemas/inventory.json"
   },
   "meta": {
-    "etag": "45184c720bb76a0160b44a0fe1cb024075ae275b9a978fd547cc2c0a14e32ecc",
+    "etag": "449550c81ab905d3ac30b2672bf23a43cf1a71eef168ab08e8caee8c4a32bce6",
     "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible-lint/main/src/ansiblelint/schemas/meta.json"
   },
   "meta-runtime": {

src/ansiblelint/schemas/ansible-lint-config.json

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
     },
     "progressive": {
       "default": false,
-      "title": "Progressive",
+      "title": "Progressive (removed feature)",
       "type": "boolean"
     },
     "quiet": {

tox.ini

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ passenv =
   REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE  # https proxies
   SETUPTOOLS_SCM_DEBUG
   SSL_CERT_FILE  # https proxies
-  SSH_AUTH_SOCK # may be needed by git when running with progressive
+  SSH_AUTH_SOCK # may be needed by git
   LANG
   LC_*
 # recreate = True