Merge pull request #1689 from gofr/1685/document-skip

Clarify documentation for --skip option
PyCQA · Mar 12, 2021 · a3afea9 · a3afea9
2 parents f76ed04 + 6fb82c3
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diff --git a/isort/main.py b/isort/main.py
@@ -312,7 +312,9 @@ def _build_arg_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         "-s",
         "--skip",
         help="Files that sort imports should skip over. If you want to skip multiple "
-        "files you should specify twice: --skip file1 --skip file2.",
+        "files you should specify twice: --skip file1 --skip file2. Values can be "
+        "file names, directory names or file paths. To skip all files in a nested path "
+        "use --skip-glob.",
         dest="skip",
         action="append",
     )