Ignoring permalinks to deleted files from previous refs

[ryanwilsonperkin]

Initial checklist

• I read the support docs
• I read the contributing guide
• I agree to follow the code of conduct
• I searched issues and discussions and couldn’t find anything (or linked relevant results below)

Problem

We occasionally have need to link to a permalink of a file such as the form https://github.com/owner/repo/blob/123abc/path/to/file.txt so that we can preserve reference to a previous artifact that has now been deleted from the main branch. This causes issues for remark because it flags the file as no longer present. It would be handy to be able to specify which branch we actually care about in the github link (could generalize to other providers as well) and have others be default ignored.

Current solutions

Can be achieved with skipPathPatterns, but requires an entry for every file that needs to be ignored

Proposed solutions

Either an allowlist of refs to include checks for, or a denylist of refs to exclude checks for

[wooorm]

Hi!

Understanding all of Git history is out of scope to this project I guess. I understand the want, but the technical implementation’s giant?
Seems also logical to actually want to catch stuff that was deleted?

A skip pattern seems viable to me?