Since 5.4.0 --exclude does not work anymore

[Martin-Luft]

Bug Report

• TSLint version: 5.4.0
• TypeScript version: 2.3.4
• Running TSLint via: CLI

Since 5.4.0 --exclude does not work anymore and breaks my build :(

tslint --config ./tslint.json --exclude '**/server-api/**' --project ./tsconfig.json --type-check

The server-api directory contains generated code which cannot be linted and therefore must be excluded.

|-tslint.json
|-tsconfig.json
|-src
  |-server-api
    |-...
  |-app
    |-...
|-...

Until 5.3.2 this worked like a charme...

[sandersn]

This doesn't seem to be fixed in 5.4.1. Typescript's build is still failing, for example:

https://travis-ci.org/Microsoft/TypeScript/jobs/238410879

You can repro this locally with gulp lint after cloning Microsft/TypeScript and running npm install. Our command is as follows:

node node_modules/tslint/bin/tslint Gulpfile.ts 'scripts/tslint/*.ts' 'src/**/*.ts' --exclude src/lib/es5.d.ts --exclude 'src/lib/*.generated.d.ts' --format stylish

[Martin-Luft]

For me 5.4.1 fixed the problem...