From b53558d9054cc968a45f7f289e1daa809a0e7153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jth-nw <james.haytko@netwrix.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:18:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: detect Vale warnings by checking output instead of exit
 code

Vale only returns non-zero exit codes for error-level violations.
Check the output for 'warning' or 'error' strings instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .husky/pre-push | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.husky/pre-push b/.husky/pre-push
index b2e504970f..03d78832e3 100755
--- a/.husky/pre-push
+++ b/.husky/pre-push
@@ -64,9 +64,8 @@ echo "$CHANGED_MD_FILES" > "$TMPFILE"
 
 while IFS= read -r FILE; do
   if [ -f "$FILE" ]; then
-    OUTPUT=$(vale --minAlertLevel=warning "$FILE" 2>&1)
-    EXIT_CODE=$?
-    if [ $EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]; then
+    OUTPUT=$(vale "$FILE" 2>&1)
+    if echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q "warning\|error"; then
       echo "$OUTPUT"
       echo ""
       VALE_FAILED=1