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Jarek Potiuk commented on RAT-352:
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Yeah. It would be really great to have .ratignore files. following the exact
semantics of .gitignore:
* Ideally we should be able to add multiple .ratignore files in any folder and
it will apply to the subtree (merging the .gitignore with higher level ignores
* It should follow 100% gitignore semantics - negation, sequence of
processing, exclude by default etc.
* It should work also in the archives.
* Also - (somewhat related) .ratconfig might be used to configure options used
by rat (say ----input-exclude-std GIT) - but that might be a separate ticket
possibly
Ideally I would like to do `java -jar rat.jar my_source.tar.gz` and it should
find all the .ratignore files and .ratconfigure file inside and ignore files /
apply configuration appropriately
> Define a .ratignore file and processor (Was: 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: Client - cli
> Reporter: Nicholas Chammas
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: low-hanging-fruit
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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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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