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Nicholas Chammas commented on RAT-352:
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> would it make sense to provide a CLI option that reads a .gitignore instead
> of a .ratexclude file to allow for your feature request?
The Spark project needs separate listings in .gitignore vs. .rat-excludes. So
as long as the new option simply changes how the patterns are interpreted (from
regex to wildcard), then we can update our existing .rat-excludes to work with
the new option.
The goal (for me at least) is to be able to look at .gitignore and
.rat-excludes and interpret the entries in there the same way. I think it's
more intuitive and easier to manage.
> 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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