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The current conversion modes supported by ConversionDriver/TransformDriver are either a file specification at the command line (-S option) or a custom file whitelist (-F option).

This feature combines a command line file specification with a custom file blacklist. The blacklist is a simple text file. Each line in this file specifies a file or set of files to be excluded from the set of files that would be gathered by the command line specification. Like the existing whitelist, the blacklist file is stored in the project root directory. All file specifications in the text file must be relative to the project root directory.

Each specification in the list must reference either a single file name, or a set of zero or more files using the following wildcard characters:

• the asterisk (*) symbol, to represent zero or more wildcard characters;
• the question mark (?) symbol, to represent exactly one wildcard character.

There is no fixed name associated with the blacklist file. This is left to the ConversionDriver user, such as the author of a build.xml script.

Note that the initial implementation of the this feature does not take case-sensitivity into account for name matching, though the existing custom file list mode doesn't either (for matching, that is, it does for sorting).

Code Review Task Branch 3898a Revision 11312

I'm good with the changes.