[RAT-126] Default excludes do not ignore .git/ repository

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8
• Fix Version/s: 0.9
• Component/s: Client - maven

Environment

Windows 7, Maven 3.0.4, Oracle JDK 1.7.0_11, Eclipse

• Assignee: Robert Burrell Donkin
• Reporter: Bernd Eckenfels
• Created: 18/Feb/13 21:42
• Updated: 02/Mar/13 07:46
• Resolved: 02/Mar/13 07:46

Description

When running the RAT 0.8 maven plugin from command line (no POM entry for the plugin) in a Eclipse+Maven project which is checked out from .git/ the plugin will not by default exclude the repository dotdir.

C:\ws\proj>\ws\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin\mvn -s ..\empty.xml org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:check
...
[INFO] — apache-rat-plugin:0.8:check (default-cli) @ et-otp —
[INFO] No excludes
...

The excludes should eighter be contained in the eclipse defaults or have its own dotfile or scm category. A workaround would be to specify the excludes, unfortunatelly there seems to be no expression associated with the exclude property of the mojo.