[RAT-164] Allow skipping execution entirely

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10
• Fix Version/s: 0.11
• Assignee: Philipp Ottlinger
• Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
• Created: 11/Jul/14 12:08
• Updated: 23/Jan/15 11:29
• Resolved: 27/Jul/14 19:07

Description

In some outlier cases, it'd be useful to skip execution of the rat plugin entirely. Notably, when scripting a `git bisect`, the extra 3 seconds or so it takes to run can really add up. Simply ignoring errors (setting rat.ignoreErrors=true) is insufficient in these cases.

It should be pretty easy to check the "rat.skip" system property and run only if it is not set to "false" or "0".

Issue Links

• duplicates: RAT-143 Should support 'skip' property to override pom invocation
• relates to: RAT-173 Cannot skip plugin run completely, but check only