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Christopher Tubbs commented on RAT-171:
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I think you're referring to the SCM files themselves, not the ignored files
that those files point to. In any case, I think it should be a separate knob.
The use case I describe is such that I'd want .gitignore to be ignored (because
it's a reasonable exception) during a release build, but I'd want to make sure
that no unversioned and unchecked files to be put into a release tarball (such
files might be non-versioned generated source or resources).
> 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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