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[problem-matchers/](problem-matchers/).

Pull Requests with additional linters welcome!

### Annotation Limitations

GitHub imposes limitations on the total number of annotations a step or job may create [[Source 1](https://github.community/t/annotation-limitation/17998/2)][[Source 2](https://github.community/t/maximum-number-of-annotations-that-can-be-created-using-github-actions-logging-commands/16991)]. If a linter finds more problems than what may be annotated, only a random subset of the reported errors/warnings will be annotated. In either case, all found errors are reported in the action's logs. The exact limitations are:

- 10 warning annotations and 10 error annotations per step
- 50 annotations per job (sum of annotations from all the steps)
- 50 annotations per run (separate from the job annotations, these annotations aren’t created by users


One approach to (partially) counteract this limitation is to split the linting into multiple steps/jobs. This can be done on a per linter or per folder basis. Example:

```yaml
jobs:
# this job can annotate up to 50 errors/warnings
lint_core:
...
steps:
...
# this step can annotate up to 10 errors/warnings
- name: Flake8 Module1
uses: liskin/gh-problem-matcher-wrap@v1
with:
linters: flake8
run: flake8 src/core/module1
# this step can annotate an additional 10
- name: Flake8 Module2
uses: liskin/gh-problem-matcher-wrap@v1
with:
linters: flake8
run: flake8 src/core/module2
# this job can annotate an additioanal 50 errors/warnings
lint_plugins:
...
steps:
...
# this step can annotate up to 10 errors/warnings
- name: Flake8
uses: liskin/gh-problem-matcher-wrap@v1
with:
linters: flake8
run: flake8 src/plugins/
```

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