Baseline cleaning task about detekt HOT 4 CLOSED

It's only possible way to clean baseline: do it manually or set maxIssues = 0 and set issues weight to 0, then run baseline.

In general for baseline, you want to just re-generate them. What's the point of adding yet another task for us to maintain when you can already achieve the same result?

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This is too specific so I agree that we shouldn't add this feature.

The idea with the baseline is to generate then regenerate as issues are fixed - and that new issues are not introduced to the baseline once it's been established.

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What's the point of adding yet another task for us to maintain when you can already achieve the same result?

If there are new issues that weight set 0 – they would appear in regenerated baseline.
As I said it might be just a flag, which excludes new issues from baseline, not a new task.

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I also agree that we don't want this by default.

Some extra thoughts:

• the weight concept is not going to exist on 2.0. We introduced the severity that should fulfill the same use cases.
• if you really want this feature you can implement it yourself. The Detekt api is extensible and this should be easily doable. Even the default baseline is implemented using this extensible api.

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