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Andrew Phillips commented on RAT-171:
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> I think it should also exclude its contents, and that does not look like a
> special case to me.
Sorry, I probably wasn't clear: I agree that, if {{.gitignore}} is already
"known" to the plugin as something to exclude by default, it makes sense to
exclude all the contents of {{.gitignore}}, too. I just meant that, as
[~hugo.hirsch] points out, the same goes for things like {{.hgignore}} too.
[~hugo.hirsch]: What you suggest sounds like exactly what's needed, if I'm
understanding it correctly. Thanks!
> Allow exclude patterns to be read from a file or files
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> Key: RAT-171
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-171
> Project: Apache Rat
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.11
> Reporter: Ignasi Barrera
> Assignee: Philipp Ottlinger
> Attachments: RAT-171.patch
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> The apache-rat-plugin ignores by default the .gitignore files. However, for
> every file/pattern added to those files, an explicit exclusion must be set in
> the plugin's configuration.
> Given that git-ignored files won't be uploaded to the SCM and shouldn't be
> part of a release, it would be nice that the apache-rat-plugin automatically
> considered those git-ignored files as implicit exclusions.
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