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Dennis Lundberg commented on RAT-98: ------------------------------------ The current behavior of the Maven plugin is to log the files that are excluded in the build log. It can look like this example, where I have excluded the BUILD.txt file: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Apache Rat [INFO] task-segment: [org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:0.9-SNAPSHOT:check] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] snapshot org.apache.rat:apache-rat-core:0.9-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from apache.snapshots [INFO] [apache-rat:check {execution: default-cli}] [INFO] Exclude: BUILD.txt Did you want for this to be included in the report? > Maven RAT report does not document skipped files > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: RAT-98 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-98 > Project: Apache Rat > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sebb > > The Maven RAT report should document which files have been skipped using the > <exclude> option. > Either by listing the configuration details, or better by listing the file > names with a marker, e.g. EX to show they were deliberately skipped. > Note: this only refers to files listed in <exclude> entries, not files which > are excluded by default. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira