resolve issue 175

Author: boyter

NOTES.md

@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ These can change scc's output or behaviour for an identical invocation against
 - **Percentage outputs in JSON** (#720) — JSON output now includes percentage
   figures.
 - **Codeberg support** (#866376f) — Codeberg as a supported badge/target.
+- **External ignore files via `--ignore-file`** — supply additional gitignore-format
+  ignore files from outside the scanned tree (repeatable, order-sensitive, anchored
+  at the scan root; any in-tree `.gitignore`/`.ignore`/`.sccignore` takes precedence).
+  Resolves the long-standing request for global/shared ignore support without scc
+  shelling out to git — point it at `~/.config/git/ignore` directly, or set it once
+  in a `.scc` file via `SCC_CONFIG_PATH`. Backed by `CustomIgnoreFiles` in gocodewalker.
 
 ## 🗣 Language support
 
@@ -64,6 +70,15 @@ These can change scc's output or behaviour for an identical invocation against
 - Automate file generation and add CI tests (#688, #706); update to latest Go
   and refresh dependencies.
 
+## 🗒 To discuss / follow-up
+
+- **Remaining `git` subprocess shell-out** — `remoteOriginName` in
+  `processor/report.go` still runs `git config --get remote.origin.url` to derive
+  the HTML report title. This is the only place scc shells out to the `git` binary
+  (the rest use the go-git library or `gocodewalker.FindRepositoryRoot`). Decide
+  whether to drop it (fall back to the path basename) or read it via go-git's config
+  instead, so scc has no hard dependency on a `git` binary being installed.
+
 ---
 
 _Generated from the commit history between `v3.7.0` and the 4.0.0 release._

SCC-OUTPUT-REPORT.html

@@ -12,24 +12,24 @@
 	</tr></thead>
 	<tbody><tr>
 		<th>Go</th>
-		<th>65</th>
-		<th>39405</th>
-		<th>2953</th>
-		<th>1963</th>
-		<th>34489</th>
-		<th>4336</th>
-		<th>940656</th>
-		<th>14313</th>
+		<th>66</th>
+		<th>39658</th>
+		<th>2965</th>
+		<th>1976</th>
+		<th>34717</th>
+		<th>4352</th>
+		<th>946507</th>
+		<th>14376</th>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/constants.go</td>
 		<td></td>
-		<td>14687</td>
+		<td>14855</td>
 		<td>1</td>
 		<td>2</td>
-		<td>14684</td>
+		<td>14852</td>
 		<td>0</td>
-		<td>235991</td>
-		<td>2249</td>
+		<td>239226</td>
+		<td>2280</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/workers_test.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/processor.go</td>
 		<td></td>
-		<td>1042</td>
-		<td>197</td>
-		<td>188</td>
-		<td>657</td>
+		<td>1049</td>
+		<td>198</td>
+		<td>192</td>
+		<td>659</td>
 		<td>156</td>
-		<td>31732</td>
-		<td>681</td>
+		<td>32102</td>
+		<td>687</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>main_test.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -83,23 +83,23 @@
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/workers.go</td>
 		<td></td>
-		<td>957</td>
+		<td>960</td>
 		<td>146</td>
-		<td>95</td>
+		<td>98</td>
 		<td>716</td>
 		<td>244</td>
-		<td>28545</td>
-		<td>543</td>
+		<td>28788</td>
+		<td>547</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/report.go</td>
 		<td></td>
-		<td>805</td>
+		<td>806</td>
 		<td>79</td>
 		<td>108</td>
-		<td>618</td>
+		<td>619</td>
 		<td>112</td>
-		<td>22568</td>
-		<td>580</td>
+		<td>22613</td>
+		<td>581</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/history.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>config_test.go</td>
 		<td></td>
-		<td>785</td>
+		<td>786</td>
 		<td>50</td>
 		<td>85</td>
-		<td>650</td>
+		<td>651</td>
 		<td>199</td>
-		<td>29332</td>
-		<td>410</td>
+		<td>29349</td>
+		<td>411</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/report_render.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -173,13 +173,13 @@
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>config.go</td>
 		<td></td>
-		<td>584</td>
+		<td>585</td>
 		<td>24</td>
 		<td>49</td>
-		<td>511</td>
+		<td>512</td>
 		<td>40</td>
-		<td>27743</td>
-		<td>420</td>
+		<td>27979</td>
+		<td>421</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/history_author_timeline_test.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -250,16 +250,6 @@
 		<td>52</td>
 		<td>10674</td>
 		<td>281</td>
-	</tr><tr>
-		<td>processor/file_test.go</td>
-		<td></td>
-		<td>373</td>
-		<td>70</td>
-		<td>16</td>
-		<td>287</td>
-		<td>75</td>
-		<td>8978</td>
-		<td>178</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/history_languages.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -270,6 +260,16 @@
 		<td>52</td>
 		<td>10482</td>
 		<td>269</td>
+	</tr><tr>
+		<td>processor/file_test.go</td>
+		<td></td>
+		<td>373</td>
+		<td>70</td>
+		<td>16</td>
+		<td>287</td>
+		<td>75</td>
+		<td>8978</td>
+		<td>178</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/formatters_misc.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -503,13 +503,13 @@
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/result.go</td>
 		<td></td>
-		<td>137</td>
+		<td>138</td>
 		<td>24</td>
 		<td>3</td>
-		<td>110</td>
+		<td>111</td>
 		<td>31</td>
-		<td>3247</td>
-		<td>92</td>
+		<td>3291</td>
+		<td>93</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/formatters_sql.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -600,6 +600,16 @@
 		<td>13</td>
 		<td>2123</td>
 		<td>62</td>
+	</tr><tr>
+		<td>processor/workers_issue175_test.go</td>
+		<td></td>
+		<td>71</td>
+		<td>11</td>
+		<td>6</td>
+		<td>54</td>
+		<td>16</td>
+		<td>1661</td>
+		<td>37</td>
 	</tr><tr>
 		<td>processor/history_ignore_test.go</td>
 		<td></td>
@@ -673,16 +683,16 @@
 	</tr></tbody>
 	<tfoot><tr>
 		<th>Total</th>
-		<th>65</th>
-		<th>39405</th>
-		<th>2953</th>
-		<th>1963</th>
-		<th>34489</th>
-		<th>4336</th>
-		<th>940656</th>
-		<th>14313</th>
+		<th>66</th>
+		<th>39658</th>
+		<th>2965</th>
+		<th>1976</th>
+		<th>34717</th>
+		<th>4352</th>
+		<th>946507</th>
+		<th>14376</th>
 	</tr>
 	<tr>
-		<th colspan="9">Estimated Cost to Develop (organic) $1,112,141<br>Estimated Schedule Effort (organic) 14.32 months<br>Estimated People Required (organic) 6.90<br></th>
+		<th colspan="9">Estimated Cost to Develop (organic) $1,119,862<br>Estimated Schedule Effort (organic) 14.36 months<br>Estimated People Required (organic) 6.93<br></th>
 	</tr></tfoot>
 	</table></body></html>