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Dennis Lundberg commented on RAT-171: ------------------------------------- It is possible (at least in trunk) to turn on/off using SCM ignores files such as {{.gitignore}} via the {{useDefaultExcludes}} parameter. > Allow exclude patterns to be read from a file or files > ------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)