Add `--config` argument to CLI
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- Rust
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Description
Consider the ruff/cargo approach of --config for overriding configuration settings rather than shoving them all in the command line api.
Their thought process is that you should not be setting things like --indent-width at the cli most of the time, that prevents you and your colleagues from having identical formatting experiences. Instead you should rely on the presence of an air.toml to hold the configuration details. But sometimes it is still useful to override this.
https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/configuration/#the-config-cli-flag
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the CLI argument definitions and configuration-loading entry point, then review the linked Ruff configuration flag behavior. Confirm how an explicit --config value should override normal configuration discovery and add focused CLI/configuration tests. Done means users can supply configuration through --config without moving every setting into command-line flags.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 64/100