Arnout Engelen created RAT-473:
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Summary: Ignore files matching the global .gitignore
Key: RAT-473
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-473
Project: Apache Rat
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Arnout Engelen
rat already ignores local files matching the patterns in .gitignore when
scanning for license/copyright headers.
Some tools, such as some editors/IDEs (but also other utilities), leave behind
files in the project that should similarly be ignored. Especially for obscure
tools, it would be nice to be able to do that without having to contribute to
the .gitignore in the upstream repository. In such cases it's helpful to put
those patterns in a user-specific 'global' gitignore
([https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore).] Git supports this, but rat currently
doesn't take it into account.
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