Environment Variables

There are several environment variables that affect the RAT engine. They are:

• HOME

  The current user's home directory.

• RAT_DECOMPOSE_MATCHER_ON_USE

  Log the decomposition of matchers on use. Messages will be logged at the minimum log level currently enabled.

• RAT_DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL

  The default log level for the command line logger. Should be one of: DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, OFF.

• RAT_NO_GIT_GLOBAL_IGNORE

  Ignore global ignore file when processing GIT ignore files.

• XDG_CONFIG_HOME

  Where user-specific configurations are written. Generally defaults to $HOME/.config. Only needs to be set if it has been changed on the system.