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Philipp Ottlinger commented on RAT-352:
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Thanks for taking the time to report the issue - at the moment we are working
on 0.16.1 to fix a breaking change with custom license definitions.
Thinking about your request - would it make sense to provide a CLI option that
reads a .gitignore instead of a .ratexclude file to allow for your feature
request?
In 0.16 we integrated an external library that improves exclusion parsing as
part of the Maven-based RAT runs. Maybe this feature can be adapted/enhanced to
support your use case? Feel free to fork and play around - patches welcome!
> Enable use of wildcard expressions in exclude file
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> Key: RAT-352
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-352
> Project: Apache Rat
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: cli
> Reporter: Nicholas Chammas
> Priority: Minor
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> Due to the widespread use of git, I would find it much more intuitive if
> .rat-excludes worked like .gitignore. I think most people on the Spark
> project would agree (though, fair disclosure, I haven't polled them).
> Would it make sense to add a CLI option instructing RAT to interpret entries
> in the exclude file as wildcard expressions (as opposed to regular
> expressions) that work more or less like .gitignore?
> This feature request is somewhat related to RAT-265.
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