Niels Basjes created RAT-509:
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Summary: Gitignore rules are mixed with Rat exclude rules
Key: RAT-509
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-509
Project: Apache Rat
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Client - maven
Affects Versions: 0.17
Reporter: Niels Basjes
Assume the following simplified example:
A pom.xml with the rat plugin and the config
{code:java}
<configuration>
<consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.log</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>{code}
A .gitignore with
{code:java}
target
*.log
!demo.log {code}
A demo.log file with any content that is not a valid license (i.e. "Hello
World")
Now do mvn validate using plugin version 0.16.1 and it all passed, do the same
with plugin version 0.17 and it fails.
My assesment is that the full set of rules in the .gitignore files are merged
to a combined list with the license check rules. This is incorrect, these two
rules sets have a conceptually different meaning and should not be merged.
Although the check "Is this file ignored by version control" should be used,
the individual rules in there should not be merged.
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