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Arnout Engelen commented on RAT-476:
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Thanks - realistically I don't think I'll find the time to work on this any
time soon, but will definitely revisit when I actually encounter the problem in
any ASF project ;)
> include/exclude precedence rules do not match gitignore semantics
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> Key: RAT-476
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-476
> Project: Apache Rat
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core engine
> Reporter: Arnout Engelen
> Priority: Major
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> currently, RAT processes all 'unignore' patterns separately from all 'ignore'
> patterns, and only takes into account precedence withing those groups. This
> does not match the gitignore semantics, where ignore/unignore patterns are
> evaluated on each precedence level. I think it would make sense to align to
> the gitignore semantics, but possibly we should evaluate if that'd conflict
> with ignore logic for other VCS'es.
> See discussion in [https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat/pull/433] for
> background
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