Support exclusions using .gitignore

[rwinch]

It would be nice if the Gradle plugin could support excluding files based upon the .gitignore file.

[JLLeitschuh]

Interestingly, you may not want to do this.
For example, if you have something that generates code into the Gradle build/ directory, you'd want to be alerted that that generated code is using http.

[rwinch]

While you might not, there is a good chance you do want to ignore all the IDE metadata that you have no control over. In either case, I think it would be up to the project to decide.

[JLLeitschuh]

In either case, I think it would be up to the project to decide.

Agreed!

[simonbasle]

I came across this issue while running ./gradlew nohttp locally and getting a lot of complains from under .idea/... @rwinch maybe using git check-ignore command would be a possibility, as a second-pass filter?

[rwinch]

Thanks @simonbasle. I think that would be a good and simple way to implement this. I do hesitate a bit on requiring a binary be installed (i.e. git), so it would certainly have to be an opt in item. Any chance you are interested in providing a PR?

[simonbasle]

Any chance you are interested in providing a PR?

Sorry I just saw that part of the message. I'm not able to provide a PR at this time, so if somebody else wants to take it go ahead!