ansible-lint pre-commit hook not using configuration file

[ansiblejunky]

Issue Type

• Bug report

Ansible and Ansible Lint details

ansible --version
2.7.10
ansible-lint --version
4.1.0

• ansible installation method: pip
• ansible-lint installation method: pre-commit installed from source

Desired Behaviour

Running pre-commit should result in ansible-lint using my configuration file that defines various settings.

pre-commit run ansible-lint

Actual Behaviour (Bug report only)

pre-commit launches ansible-lint but it's clear that ansible-lint is not using my configuration file because it's not applying my custom rules. When I instead run ansible-lint explicitly it picks up the configuration file and applies my rules.

ansible-lint site.yml

Below is the pre-commit hook definition in the .pre-commit-config.yaml file.

---

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint.git
    rev: v4.1.0a0
    hooks:
      - id: ansible-lint
        name: ansible-lint
        files: \.(yaml|yml)$
        entry: ansible-lint
        language: python
        verbose: true

I tried adding the args option to explicitly define the config file but this does not work and is ignored (has no affect)! Here is my version with the args option:

---

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint.git
    rev: v4.1.0a0
    hooks:
      - id: ansible-lint
        name: ansible-lint
        files: \.(yaml|yml)$
        entry: ansible-lint
        language: python
        args: [-c .ansible-lint]
        verbose: true

I have tried different formats for the args option and nothing worked.

Can someone please fix or advise?

[ansiblejunky]

Actually, I determined the real problem is not with the args. It was caused because I had a vault file also in my staged files. Closing this issue as the real issue is here.