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ntBre · 2026-08-17T18:01:46Z

Summary

This is the CLI accompaniment to #27807. The main change here is showing display-only fix diffs in
the CLI. However, display-only fixes don't have a corresponding flag like --unsafe-fixes, and I
thought it would be weird to show them unconditionally when we don't do the same for unsafe fixes,
so this PR also unconditionally renders unsafe fix diffs, even when that flag isn't passed. We
already emit a note about the fix being unsafe, so I think it makes sense always to show you the
fix, and make --unsafe-fixes enable actually applying the fix. We also don't want to apply
display-only fixes, so enabling rendering of the fixes with --display-only-fixes or similar would
also disagree with the semantics of the unsafe flag. I'm open to other ideas here, though.

The sub-diagnostic for display-only fixes uses a higher severity than the note for unsafe fixes and
renders in red, as shown below.

The change here also affects ty, which now has both unsafe and display-only fixes.

I again checked what clippy and rustc do in these cases, and they don't include any additional note or warning about the fix being unsafe:

Rust diagnostics

Here's a clippy::needless_pass_by_value diagnostic, which is MaybeIncorrect ( similar to our Unsafe):

warning: this argument is passed by value, but not consumed in the function body
 --> src/main.rs:3:15
  |
3 | fn size(data: Data) -> usize {
  |               ^^^^
  |
  = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/rust-1.97.0/index.html#needless_pass_by_value
  = note: requested on the command line with `-W clippy::needless-pass-by-value`
help: consider taking a reference instead
  |
3 | fn size(data: &Data) -> usize {
  |               +

and here's a rustc LetLike diagnostic, which is has-placeholders (similar to our DisplayOnly but definitely produces invalid code in this case):

error[E0282]: type annotations needed for `Vec<_>`
 --> placeholder.rs:2:9
  |
2 |     let values = Vec::new();
  |         ^^^^^^   ---------- type must be known at this point
  |
help: consider giving `values` an explicit type, where the type for type parameter `T` is specified
  |
2 |     let values: Vec<T> = Vec::new();
  |               ++++++++

Fixes astral-sh/ty#1679

Test Plan

Updated existing snapshots, and some manual testing in the CLI:

Summary -- This is the CLI accompaniment to #27807. The main change here is showing display-only fix diffs in the CLI. However, display-only fixes don't have a corresponding flag like `--unsafe-fixes`, and I thought it would be weird to show them unconditionally when we don't do the same for unsafe fixes, so this PR also unconditionally renders unsafe fix diffs, even when that flag isn't passed. We already emit a note about the fix being unsafe, so I think it makes sense always to show you the fix, and make `--unsafe-fixes` enable actually applying the fix. We also don't want to apply display-only fixes, so enabling rendering of the fixes with `--display-only-fixes` or similar would also disagree with the semantics of the unsafe flag. I'm open to other ideas here, though. The sub-diagnostic for display-only fixes uses a higher severity than the note for unsafe fixes and renders in red, as shown below. Test Plan -- Updated existing snapshots, and some manual testing in the CLI: TODO

astral-sh-bot · 2026-08-17T18:27:24Z

Memory usage report

Memory usage unchanged ✅

MichaReiser · 2026-08-18T07:42:11Z

-            // analog to `--unsafe-fixes` for users to activate this or see the styling.
-            AnnotateLevel::ERROR,
-            "This is a display-only fix and is likely to be incorrect",
+            AnnotateLevel::ERROR.with_name("warning"),


ERROR seems a bit strong to me. Nothing went wrong. I think this really just is a warning.

Makes sense, I was just trying to differentiate it from the note above, which already uses the warning styling. I guess the warning vs note label is probably enough.

(as discussed offline, I agree with Micha here -- I think I'd go with AnnotateLevel::WARNING.with_name("note") here, the same as with unsafe fixes. The message is clear enough about the "risks" of blindly copying and pasting the fix)

MichaReiser

I like the change, but it's a bit unclear to me how it fits into --no-unsafe-fixes. I'm also not very familiar with that part of the CLI. Specificaly

--no-unsafe-fixes still prevents unsafe fixes from being applied and suppresses the summary hint about enabling them. But full output still shows their diffs and safety notes. Display-only suggestions remain visible too.

Without the hint, it sort of becomes confusing if we keep showing them. But that also suggests that we should only show fixes that the user has opted in to.

ntBre · 2026-08-18T20:10:42Z

I like the change, but it's a bit unclear to me how it fits into --no-unsafe-fixes. I'm also not very familiar with that part of the CLI. Specificaly

--no-unsafe-fixes still prevents unsafe fixes from being applied and suppresses the summary hint about enabling them. But full output still shows their diffs and safety notes. Display-only suggestions remain visible too.

Yeah this was all a bit unclear to me too, as I tried to summarize in the description.

Without the hint, it sort of becomes confusing if we keep showing them. But that also suggests that we should only show fixes that the user has opted in to.

This last part, "only show fixes that the user has opted in to," definitely makes sense to me and is what we currently do with --unsafe-fixes. However, I was trying to avoid adding a flag to opt in to displaying display-only fixes. By analogy to --unsafe-fixes, a flag named --display-only-fixes would imply to me both displaying and applying these fixes.

We could have something like --render-display-only-fixes, but that's getting quite cumbersome. I already personally find it a bit annoying when I have to add --unsafe-fixes to see these diffs without --fix.

I thought the simplest way of resolving all this was to:

always display fixes, with the accompanying note about their safety
make flags like --unsafe-fixes control only the application of fixes

Always displaying unsafe fixes has the same benefits we discussed for display-only fixes, namely that seeing the diff can be helpful even if you don't want to automatically apply it.

I don't feel like --no-unsafe-fixes really changes that interpretation, though I may need to check on the CLI docs. --no-unsafe-fixes is still useful to disable applying unsafe fixes you enabled somewhere else, like via unsafe-fixes in your config file.

astral-sh-bot · 2026-09-21T17:35:15Z

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astral-sh-bot · 2026-09-21T17:43:10Z

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AlexWaygood · 2026-09-21T18:03:17Z

The unsafe fix change here also affects ty since it has unsafe but no current display-only fixes.

out of date, we have some display-only fixes now in ty too! (I added them in the hope that we'd make a change like this 😆)

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>

AlexWaygood

I think this is a big improvement to diagnostic rendering, I'm very much in favour of this! I think it particularly helps with some of the more complex ty diagnostics we've been adding recently, where the autofix often helps explain what the diagnostic is trying to get you to change.

To me the interaction with --no-unsafe-fixes seems intuitive as it is on this branch, and I don't think any of the docs for --no-unsafe-fixes need updating. Continuing to display unsafe fixes, but not applying them, is what I'd expect as a user with --no-unsafe-fixes, I think.

MichaReiser

I think I agree that showing them is fine, for as long as they don't get a fix indicator.

Could you add a ty CLI test. I'm interested in the CLI output (and wording around fixes if there are only unsafe fixes)

We should also update our documentation

ruff/docs/linter.md

Line 325 in 4cf07b2

    
           Ruff only enables safe fixes by default. Unsafe fixes can be enabled by settings [`unsafe-fixes`](settings.md#unsafe-fixes) in your configuration file or passing the `--unsafe-fixes` flag to `ruff check`:

and clarify what enable means (there might be other places where we need to update the documentation also)

MichaReiser · 2026-09-22T12:08:15Z

+    1 + # fix from stable-test-rule-display-only-fix
+    2 | def add_to_list(item, some_list=[]): ...
+      |
+    note: This fix may be incorrect or produce invalid syntax. It requires manual review and cannot be applied automatically


Nit: Should we say: This suggestion may be incorrect or produce invalid syntax. To make it clear that it isn't a safe or unsafe fix and give users a terminology to talk about these kind of fixes?

MichaReiser · 2026-09-22T12:14:11Z

    1	C416	unnecessary-comprehension
    Found 1 error.
-    No fixes available (1 hidden fix can be enabled with the `--unsafe-fixes` option).
+    No fixes available (1 unsafe fix can be enabled with the `--unsafe-fixes` option).


I like the check output, I think it makes it clear that some fixes can be automatically applied

[*] 1 fixable with the --fix option (1 unsafe fix can be enabled with the --unsafe-fixes option).

The difference is less clear for statistics (and maybe other commands) Should we say applicable fixes. Or align the wording closer to what we use for check?

MichaReiser · 2026-09-22T12:15:41Z


    Found 1 error.
-    No fixes available (1 hidden fix can be enabled with the `--unsafe-fixes` option).
+    No fixes available (1 unsafe fix can be enabled with the `--unsafe-fixes` option).


Same here. The wording is less clear. It seems confusing that it says that there's no fix but the diagnostic right above clearly has a fix (less confusing here with an unsafe fix, but it's less clear for a display only fix)

I don't find this one too bad. The fix can't be auto-applied with the current settings, but you can make it available if you pass --unsafe-fixes.

Maybe something like this would be clearer? It's a bit more verbose though

Suggested change

No fixes available (1 unsafe fix can be enabled with the `--unsafe-fixes` option).

No fixes applicable with current settings (1 unsafe fix can be enabled with the `--unsafe-fixes` option).

Hmm, this feels too long. No applicable fixes? But maybe it's fine the way it is

Codex suggests

1 unsafe fix available with --fix --unsafe-fixes.

Which I kind of like as an overall simplification

or

No safe fixes available (1 unsafe fix available with --fix --unsafe-fixes).

Which I don't like, because of safe

or

No applicable fixes (1 requires --unsafe-fixes).

I like codex's first suggestion!

Sounds good, I like the short version too! There's still a longer, parenthesized version when both safe and unsafe fixes are present, but this special case seems nicer.

[*] 1 fixable with the `--fix` option (1 unsafe fix available with `--fix --unsafe-fixes`). 1 unsafe fix available with `--fix --unsafe-fixes`.

I guess this should become [*] 1 fixable with `--fix` for consistency with the --fix --unsafe-fixes part.

astral-sh-bot · 2026-09-22T14:11:50Z

Typing conformance results

No changes detected ✅

Current numbers

The percentage of diagnostics emitted that were expected errors held steady at 98.15%. The percentage of expected errors that received a diagnostic held steady at 98.07%. The number of fully passing files held steady at 133/146.

ntBre · 2026-09-22T14:16:03Z

Thanks for the reviews! I've updated the messages and docs and added ty CLI tests.

MichaReiser · 2026-09-22T16:13:27Z

Should we put this in 0.17?

ntBre · 2026-09-22T16:18:06Z

Sure, might as well since I guess it's sort of breaking.

Summary -- This is the CLI accompaniment to #27807. The main change here is showing display-only fix diffs in the CLI. However, display-only fixes don't have a corresponding flag like `--unsafe-fixes`, and I thought it would be weird to show them unconditionally when we don't do the same for unsafe fixes, so this PR also unconditionally renders unsafe fix diffs, even when that flag isn't passed. We already emit a note about the fix being unsafe, so I think it makes sense always to show you the fix, and make `--unsafe-fixes` enable actually applying the fix. We also don't want to apply display-only fixes, so enabling rendering of the fixes with `--display-only-fixes` or similar would also disagree with the semantics of the unsafe flag. I'm open to other ideas here, though. The sub-diagnostic for display-only fixes uses a higher severity than the note for unsafe fixes and renders in red, as shown below. The change here also affects ty, which now has both unsafe and display-only fixes. I again checked what clippy and rustc do in these cases, and they don't include any additional note or warning about the fix being unsafe: <details><summary>Rust diagnostics</summary> <p> Here's a [`clippy::needless_pass_by_value`](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/rust-1.97.0/index.html#needless_pass_by_value) diagnostic, which is `MaybeIncorrect` ( similar to our `Unsafe`): ``` warning: this argument is passed by value, but not consumed in the function body --> src/main.rs:3:15 | 3 | fn size(data: Data) -> usize { | ^^^^ | = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/rust-1.97.0/index.html#needless_pass_by_value = note: requested on the command line with `-W clippy::needless-pass-by-value` help: consider taking a reference instead | 3 | fn size(data: &Data) -> usize { | + ``` and here's a rustc [`LetLike`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/8bab26f4f68e0e26f0bb7960be334d5b520ea452/compiler/rustc_trait_selection/src/errors.rs#L268-L288) diagnostic, which is `has-placeholders` (similar to our `DisplayOnly` but definitely produces invalid code in this case): ``` error[E0282]: type annotations needed for `Vec<_>` --> placeholder.rs:2:9 | 2 | let values = Vec::new(); | ^^^^^^ ---------- type must be known at this point | help: consider giving `values` an explicit type, where the type for type parameter `T` is specified | 2 | let values: Vec<T> = Vec::new(); | ++++++++ ``` </p> </details> Fixes astral-sh/ty#1679 Test Plan -- Updated existing snapshots, and some manual testing in the CLI: <img width="965" height="400" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/888ad79a-6853-48d4-8344-48da4af47d74" /> --------- Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>

ntBre added the cli Related to the command-line interface of Ruff or ty label Aug 17, 2026

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Call display-only fixes suggestions in diagnostics

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