Just saw question about "running detekt on a single file" on my notifications. I came here to answer, but the message is gone 😅 Anyway, you can use the

--input

arg. More on this here https://detekt.dev/docs/gettingstarted/git-pre-commit-hook

does this also work for the gradle plugin? Any plans on adding it?

Yes it works for the Gradle Plugin as well. Though you have to create your own task probably

Thanks for the response! May i ask how can i run the gradle detekt plugin with certain input files? I’ve tried

./gradlew detekt --input my_file.kt

but i get

Unknown command-line option ‘--input’.

It's documented here https://detekt.dev/docs/gettingstarted/gradletask

thank you!! 🙌

You can't just

./gradlew detekt --input my_file.kt

though. You'll have to use a property or so.