[RAT-157] Use the *ignore file for the SCM to determine excludes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12
• Assignee: Philipp Ottlinger
• Reporter: lucas theisen
• Created: 28/Nov/13 16:31
• Updated: 13/Apr/15 18:48
• Resolved: 13/Apr/15 18:44

Description

As I understand it, RAT is used to ensure the LICENSE text is in all source files. Anything ignored by SCM is not technically a source file. These other files are usually specific to the developer environment. And the developer will already be adding such files to their own `SCMignore`. Perhaps a pluggable ingore mechanism that could have an implementation per SCM and would know how to parse that ignore and translate filter out all the files it specifies. Perhaps this could be an option to the the rat config `useGitIgnore` or something. What do you think?

Issue Links

• duplicates: RAT-171 Allow exclude patterns to be read from a file or files
• duplicates: RAT-172 Allow RAT maven plugin to filter out source code management files and directories automatically
• is related to: RAT-171 Allow exclude patterns to be read from a file or files