> There's plenty of cases where a .git directory is just harmless > > Pretty much all lint rules have false positives so this isn't a good yardstick. Can it potentially cause harm when you do it and is there's no beneficial reason to do it? If yes to both then it's an ideal candidate for a lint rule.

Yeah sure, it should be a lint rule, we can quickly agree on that. But that wasn't really my point: my point was that random people from the internet are running these kind of high false-positive linters without asking and start emailing people about it.