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if you have one file that every single file across the repo imports in a way and you make changes to that file, you might run the linter for the entire repo. But again, how likely is this scenario?

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If the index or incremental static analysis object was designed well enough, I don't think you would need to lint every file, you would just need to look at files that consume that variable. Maybe you would look at every index?

I'm not sure how well this could scale across (600- 1000?) different lints though. I should look into static analysis a bit more.

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