updated the knip rules a bit

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Adelöw <freben@gmail.com>

scripts/check-docs-quality.js

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
+
 const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
 const {
   resolve: resolvePath,
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ const {
 } = require('path');
 const fs = require('fs').promises;
 
-const IGNORED = [
+const IGNORED_WHEN_LISTING = [
   /^ADOPTERS\.md$/,
   /^OWNERS\.md$/,
   /^.*[/\\]CHANGELOG\.md$/,
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ const IGNORED = [
   /^docs[/\\]reference[/\\]/,
 ];
 
+const IGNORED_WHEN_EXPLICIT = [/^.*[/\\]knip-report\.md$/];
+
 const rootDir = resolvePath(__dirname, '..');
 
 // Manual listing to avoid dependency install for listing files in CI
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ async function listFiles(dir = '') {
       .map(async file => {
         const path = joinPath(dir, file);
 
-        if (IGNORED.some(pattern => pattern.test(path))) {
+        if (IGNORED_WHEN_LISTING.some(pattern => pattern.test(path))) {
           return [];
         }
         if ((await fs.stat(path)).isDirectory()) {
@@ -114,7 +117,9 @@ async function main() {
   const absolutePaths = process.argv
     .slice(2)
     .filter(path => !path.startsWith('-'));
-  const relativePaths = absolutePaths.map(path => relativePath(rootDir, path));
+  const relativePaths = absolutePaths
+    .map(path => relativePath(rootDir, path))
+    .filter(path => !IGNORED_WHEN_EXPLICIT.some(pattern => pattern.test(path)));
 
   const success = await runVale(
     relativePaths.length === 0 ? await listFiles() : relativePaths,