False Positive: 'It's' -> 'Its' (`ItsPossessive`)

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Locate the Rust implementation of the ItsPossessive rule and reproduce the reported Markdown example, It's tonight. Confirm why the contraction is flagged, then verify that the example is accepted without regressing possessive-usage checks.

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Description

bug harper-core linting

What got flagged?
It's

Why is this incorrect?
Here, It's is being used as a contraction of 'it' and 'is'

Example of correct usage:

It's tonight.
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