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Christopher Tubbs commented on RAT-171:
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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}
> .
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