GitHub user ewencp opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/485
KAFKA-2797: Only run rat when in the .git repository since it require s the .gitignore to generate the list of files to ignore You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ewencp/kafka kafka-2797-disable-rat-when-git-missing Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/485.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #485 ---- commit 79c6cac66644b458eff8141e13dacd0b859f5c3c Author: Ewen Cheslack-Postava <m...@ewencp.org> Date: 2015-11-10T17:33:45Z KAFKA-2797: Only run rat when in the .git repository since it requires the .gitignore to generate the list of files to ignore ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---