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If the flagged items are :exploding_head: false positives
If items relate to a ...
- binary file (or some other file you wouldn't want to check at all).
Please add a file path to the excludes.txt file matching the containing file.
File paths are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your files.
^ refers to the file's path from the root of the repository, so ^README\.md$ would exclude README.md (on whichever branch you're using).
- well-formed pattern.
If you can write a pattern that would match it,
try adding it to the patterns.txt file.
Patterns are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your lines.
Note that patterns can't match multiline strings.
:steam_locomotive: If you're seeing this message and your PR is from a branch that doesn't have check-spelling, please merge to your PR's base branch to get the version configured for your repository.