Warn when tsconfig.json extends a file that contains references

[Woodz]

🔎 Search Terms

tsconfig, extends, references

🕗 Version & Regression Information

This is intended behaviour according to https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#extends

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💻 Code

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🙁 Actual behavior

I spent 2 days trying to get tsconfig.json file inheritance working with references. Then I found in the manual:

Currently, the only top-level property that is excluded from inheritance is references.

There was no warning in the command line when I was trying to extend a tsconfig.json file that contained references - instead it was just silently ignored.

🙂 Expected behavior

Should log a warning when extending a tsconfig.json file that contains references. This warning should explain that references are not inherited so therefore will be ignored

Additional information about the issue

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[RyanCavanaugh]

We generally don't do warnings like this unless the config is definitely wrong. It's entirely possible to imagine configurations where you're doing on this on purpose.