---
title: skipped-file
description: "The editor leaves out a file with this name."
---

# `skipped-file`

**Warning** · The editor leaves out a file with this name.

`git8n check` reports this rule as a warning. It fails only past `--max-warnings`.

## Why it matters

The name of a file is the namespace of its keys. The editor reads only names of letters, digits, `-` and `_`, so it does not show this file.

## Invalid

`locales/en/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": "Hello"
}
```

`locales/fr/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": "Bonjour"
}
```

`locales/en/common.v2.json`

```json
{
  "save": "Save"
}
```

`locales/fr/common.v2.json`

```json
{
  "save": "Enregistrer"
}
```

```text
$ git8n check --source en
locales/en/common.v2.json
  warning  common.v2.json: a file name has only letters, digits, - and _.  skipped-file

locales/fr/common.v2.json
  warning  common.v2.json: a file name has only letters, digits, - and _.  skipped-file

Read more:
  skipped-file  https://git8n.sakuga.dev/docs/reference/rules/skipped-file.html

0 errors, 2 warnings in 2 files (en → fr, 1 key).
```

## Valid

`locales/en/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": "Hello"
}
```

`locales/fr/common.json`

```json
{
  "title": "Bonjour"
}
```

`locales/en/common-v2.json`

```json
{
  "save": "Save"
}
```

`locales/fr/common-v2.json`

```json
{
  "save": "Enregistrer"
}
```

```text
$ git8n check --source en
0 errors, 0 warnings in 4 files (en → fr, 2 keys).
```

## What to do

Rename the file in each language, for example `common.v2.json` to `common-v2.json`.

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