Allow skipping symlink patterns, to avoid raising a fault

changelog_unreleased/cli/15533.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#### Skip explicitly passed symbolic links with `--no-error-on-unmatched-pattern` (#15533 by @sanmai-NL)
+
+Since Prettier v3, we stopped follow symbolic links, however in some use cases, the symbolic link patterns can't be filter out, and there is no way to prevent prettier throw errors.
+
+In Prettier main, you can use `--no-error-on-unmatched-pattern` to simply skip it.

src/cli/expand-patterns.js

@@ -69,9 +69,15 @@ async function* expandPatternsInternal(context) {
     const stat = await lstatSafe(absolutePath);
     if (stat) {
       if (stat.isSymbolicLink()) {
-        yield {
-          error: `Explicitly specified pattern "${pattern}" is a symbolic link.`,
-        };
+        if (context.argv.errorOnUnmatchedPattern !== false) {
+          yield {
+            error: `Explicitly specified pattern "${pattern}" is a symbolic link.`,
+          };
+        } else {
+          context.logger.debug(
+            `Skipping pattern "${pattern}", as it points to a symbolic link.`,
+          );
+        }
       } else if (stat.isFile()) {
         entries.push({
           type: "file",

tests/integration/__tests__/patterns-dirs.js

@@ -321,6 +321,25 @@ function isSymlinkSupported() {
     { stdout: "test-a/symlink-to-directory-b/b.js" },
     base,
   );
+
+  testPatterns(
+    "",
+    [
+      "test-a/symlink-to-file-b",
+      "--no-error-on-unmatched-pattern",
+      "--log-level",
+      "debug",
+    ],
+    {
+      status: 0,
+      stdout: "",
+      stderr:
+        '[debug] normalized argv: {"":["test-a/symlink-to-file-b"],"cache":false,"color":true,"editorconfig":true,"errorOnUnmatchedPattern":false,"logLevel":"debug","ignorePath":[".prettierignore"],"configPrecedence":"cli-override","debugRepeat":0,"plugins":[],"listDifferent":true,"_":["test-a/symlink-to-file-b"],"__raw":{"_":["test-a/symlink-to-file-b"],"cache":false,"color":true,"editorconfig":true,"error-on-unmatched-pattern":false,"l":true,"log-level":"debug","ignore-path":".prettierignore","config-precedence":"cli-override","debug-repeat":0,"plugin":[]}}' +
+        "\n" +
+        '[debug] Skipping pattern "test-a/symlink-to-file-b", as it points to a symbolic link.',
+    },
+    base,
+  );
 });
 
 function testPatterns(