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Allen Wittenauer commented on YETUS-978:
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FYI: a good chunk of plug-ins assume that if the exclude file has been defined
as a var, it exists. If it doesn't exist, then grep, etc, errors are thrown all
over the place. So will likely need to do a 'placeholder' var to see if it
exists in the future.
> missing exclusions file shouldn't be fatal
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> Key: YETUS-978
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YETUS-978
> Project: Yetus
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Precommit
> Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 0.13.0
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> It is becoming clear that adding precommit to an existing repo is a painful
> process due to the exclusions file being fatal. To work around it, one has
> to commit the exclusions file then modify the CI process to turn on
> test-patch. Instead, test-patch should be smarter and just ignore it if it
> doesn't exist yet with the expectation that the patch that is getting
> processed will add it later.
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