[jira] [Commented] (RAT-352) Enable use of wildcard expressions in exclude file

["Philipp Ottlinger (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Philipp Ottlinger commented on RAT-352:
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Thanks for taking the time to report the issue - at the moment we are working on 0.16.1 to fix a breaking change with custom license definitions.

Thinking about your request - would it make sense to provide a CLI option that reads a .gitignore instead of a .ratexclude file to allow for your feature request?
In 0.16 we integrated an external library that improves exclusion parsing as part of the Maven-based RAT runs. Maybe this feature can be adapted/enhanced to support your use case? Feel free to fork and play around - patches welcome!

> Enable use of wildcard expressions in exclude file
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RAT-352
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-352
>             Project: Apache Rat
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: cli
>            Reporter: Nicholas Chammas
>            Priority: Minor
>
> 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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