Allow compacting during normal operation (don't early exit)

[kellyselden]

Here is my pseudocode:

const { compactTodoStorageFile } = require('@lint-todo/utils');

try {
  compactTodoStorageFile();
} catch {
  write empty .lint-todo
}

INCLUDE_TODO=1 eslint with junit

output junit for dirty .lint-todo's

While this works (thanks for compactTodoStorageFile by the way!), it would be nice if I could do:

INCLUDE_TODO=1 COMPACT_TODO=1 eslint with junit

output junit for dirty .lint-todo's

But since COMPACT_TODO is an early exit, it has to be a two step process. The workaround works fine if you want to close this. Thanks!

[scalvert]

This seems reasonable. The idea was to really minimize the work done via the actual linting process.

I'll put some thought into the potential impact of this.

[Alonski]

Hey
Wondering if there was ever any thoughts on this and potential work that was done. Would love to see this done.
Thanks!