Bug 314110

Description Michael Pellaton 2010-05-24 09:23:19 EDT

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Exclusion rules now use exact IU IDs. However, it is sometimes the case that an entire group of feature groups should be excluded. In that case, it is now necessary to create an exclusion rule for each individual IU (= finding each IU in the combo box of 5 lines height in a large repository...).

I suggest supporting wildcards or regular expressions for exclusion rules.

As alternative, add a facility to manage the exclusions. I could imagine a dialog similar to the "PluginImportWizard" with two lists of IUs, a search facility and different add and remove buttons. The exclusion rules are then generated/updated from the dialog result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Example User Story to Highlight the Requested Feature:

Task:
Aggregate all Subversive-related sites into a single one for internal use. Avoid mirroring javahl as svnkit is the recommended platform independent svn back-end in our company.

Now:
- Create a b3aggr file aggregating the three sites (main, connector, integrations)
- create an exclusion rule for each of the javahl features
- (If a new release appears and there is yet another javahl IU, the build will fail, and an additional rule 
  needs to be added manually)

With Wildcard/regex Support:
- Create a b3aggr file aggregating the three sites (main, connector, integrations)
- Create a single exclusion rule for org.polarion.eclipse.team.svn.connector.javahl*
- (If a new release appears and there is yet another javahl IU, the rule still works)