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Ignasi Barrera commented on RAT-171:
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Having a deeper look, I think we should leave only the property to configure
the "exclusion files", but do not automatically process the .gitignore and
other SCM files.
Those have very specific syntax and allow expressions that might not be
compatible with the rat plugin path matchers. Instead of adding more
unnecessary complexity to the plugin, I'd say that it's better to remove the
automatic processing of the ignore files from this patch, and leave only the
property to allow users to configure their custom files (such as the
.gitignore).
WDYT?
> 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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