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Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -Recurse taking forever (60+ seconds) to finish
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Description
To be honest, this is my first time ever I tried to use Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer. So please be patient with me and if I am doing things wrong please let me know. Most of the time I use defaults on VSCode but I wanted to play with it today a bit. I have very simple project with just few files. When I used -Recurse it's stuck. I am not sure if this is just my setup or I need to wait much much longer but it would seem weird for it to be waiting like that on 100 lines.
Keep in mind that my C:\Support\Github is actually hardlinked.

Now I am wondering if that is not being a problem overall for all my reports about broken stuff in VSCode where I get lots and lots of perf issues,, broken links. Notice how C: is actually missing from fsutil.exe output. I am not sure if that's supposed to be like that thou and how it would affect your tool.
I did move the project to Desktop or tried using OneDrive folder directly but it didn't change the output so maybe it's not related.
I did try this outside of VSCode with same results.
Steps to reproduce
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -Path C:\Support\GitHub\Dashimo -Recurse -Verbose
Expected behavior
Finishing up.
Actual behavior

Environment data
> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 5.1.17763.316
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.17763.316
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
> (Get-Module -ListAvailable PSScriptAnalyzer).Version | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString() }
1.18.0
1.17.1
1.17.1
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Research direction
Start by reproducing Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -Path C:\Support\GitHub\Dashimo -Recurse -Verbose on Windows PowerShell 5.1 with PSScriptAnalyzer 1.18.0, comparing recursive and non-recursive runs. Investigate the recursive path handling using the reported project and hardlinked location; done means the command completes normally and the regression is covered by an appropriate test.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- performance, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100