lucas theisen created RAT-157:
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Summary: Use the *ignore file for the SCM to determine excludes
Key: RAT-157
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-157
Project: Apache Rat
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: lucas theisen
Priority: Minor
As I understand it, RAT is used to ensure the LICENSE text is in all source
files. Anything ignored by SCM is not technically a source file. These other
files are usually specific to the developer environment. And the developer
will already be adding such files to their own `SCMignore`. Perhaps a
pluggable ingore mechanism that could have an implementation per SCM and would
know how to parse that ignore and translate filter out all the files it
specifies. Perhaps this could be an option to the the rat config
`useGitIgnore` or something. What do you think?
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