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lucas theisen updated RAT-157:
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Description: As I understand it, RAT is used to ensure the LICENSE text is
in all source files. Anything ignored by SCM is not technically a source file.
These other files are usually specific to the developer environment. And the
developer will already be adding such files to their own `SCMignore`. Perhaps
a pluggable ingore mechanism that could have an implementation per SCM and
would know how to parse that ignore and translate filter out all the files it
specifies. Perhaps this could be an option to the the rat config
`useGitIgnore` or something. What do you think? (was: As I understand it, RAT
is used to ensure the LICENSE text is in all source files. Anything ignored by
SCM is not technically a source file. These other files are usually specific
to the developer environment. And the developer will already be adding such
files to their own *SCMignore*. Perhaps a pluggable ingore mechanism that
could have an implementation per SCM and would know how to parse that ignore
and translate filter out all the files it specifies. Perhaps this could be an
option to the the rat config `useGitIgnore` or something. What do you think?)
> Use the *ignore file for the SCM to determine excludes
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> Key: RAT-157
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-157
> Project: Apache Rat
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: lucas theisen
> Priority: Minor
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> As I understand it, RAT is used to ensure the LICENSE text is in all source
> files. Anything ignored by SCM is not technically a source file. These
> other files are usually specific to the developer environment. And the
> developer will already be adding such files to their own `SCMignore`.
> Perhaps a pluggable ingore mechanism that could have an implementation per
> SCM and would know how to parse that ignore and translate filter out all the
> files it specifies. Perhaps this could be an option to the the rat config
> `useGitIgnore` or something. What do you think?
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