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Christopher Tubbs commented on RAT-171: --------------------------------------- Those examples are not Java regular expressions. That's globbing syntax (with globstar) and, as far as I'm aware, are only built into Java in Java 7 and later, using the new {{java.nio.file.FileSystem.getPathMatcher(String)}}. I don't want to be a contrarian. I think the functionality is helpful. I was just hoping to address some of the shortfalls to the implementation (by constructively asking questions to help identify those shortfalls) prior to it being released. I'll file follow-on bugs if these shortcomings make it into a release, but first I need to understand where the problems could be. It seems the issue of exclude patterns from files is a very different function than exclude patterns from SCM ignores, and the current implementation does not satisfy SCM ignores very well, even though its configuration represents itself as such. > 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: New Feature > Affects Versions: 0.11 > Reporter: Ignasi Barrera > Assignee: Philipp Ottlinger > Fix For: 0.12 > > Attachments: RAT-171.patch > > > h3. Context > 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. > h3. Implemented for > Currently implemented for the following soure code management systems: > * SVN > * Git > * Bazaar > * Mercurial and > * CVS. > h3. Example usage > You can configure parsing SCM ignore files by a environment variable > {code} > mvn -U -debug -Drat.parseSCMIgnoresAsExcludes=true > {code} > or in your configuration section of apache-rat-maven plugin > {code} > <parseSCMIgnoresAsExcludes>true</true> > {code} > This features is enabled by default. > In case you want to speed up the build you may disable it and set it to > {code} > false > {code} > . -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)