Revert "Read exclude patterns from .gitignore in absence of user-prov…

…ided patterns (#344) (#345)"

This reverts commit aa6fcd2.

After further thought, the --exclude flag and .gitignore file
have different responsibilities and mixing them will surprise
some users.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 * Bump flake8, flake8-comprehensions and flake8-bugbear (Sebastian Csar, #341).
 * Switch to tomllib/tomli to support heterogeneous arrays (Sebastian Csar, #340).
 * Provide whitelist parity for `MagicMock` and `Mock` (maxrake).
-* Use .gitignore to exclude files if --exclude is missing from both pyproject.toml and the command line (whosayn, #344, #345).
-* Properly detect when no .gitignore is present (travisdart, #346).
 
 # 2.10 (2023-10-06)
 

README.md

@@ -83,10 +83,6 @@ If you want to ignore a whole file or directory, use the `--exclude` parameter
 (e.g., `--exclude "*settings.py,*/docs/*.py,*/test_*.py,*/.venv/*.py"`). The
 exclude patterns are matched against absolute paths.
 
-Vulture 2.11+ parses the `.gitignore` file in the current working directory for
-exclude patterns if the `--exclude` parameter is unused and if there are no
-exclude patterns in the pyproject.toml file.
-
 #### Flake8 noqa comments
 
 <!-- Hide noqa docs until we decide whether we want to support it.

requirements.txt

@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-pathspec >= 0.12.1
 tomli >= 1.1.0; python_version < '3.11'

vulture/core.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import string
 import sys
 
-from pathspec import PathSpec
 from vulture import lines
 from vulture import noqa
 from vulture import utils
@@ -115,13 +114,6 @@ def _ignore_variable(filename, varname):
     )
 
 
-def _get_gitignore_pathspec():
-    if (gitignore := Path(".gitignore").resolve()).is_file():
-        with gitignore.open() as fh:
-            return PathSpec.from_lines("gitwildmatch", fh)
-    return PathSpec.from_lines("gitwildmatch", [])
-
-
 class Item:
     """
     Hold the name, type and location of defined code.
@@ -271,16 +263,9 @@ def prepare_pattern(pattern):
             return pattern
 
         exclude = [prepare_pattern(pattern) for pattern in (exclude or [])]
-        gitignore = _get_gitignore_pathspec()
 
         def exclude_path(path):
-            # If no exclude patterns are provided via the CLI or
-            # a TOML file, use .gitignore patterns to inform exclusion.
-            return (
-                _match(path, exclude, case=False)
-                if exclude
-                else gitignore.match_file(path)
-            )
+            return _match(path, exclude, case=False)
 
         paths = [Path(path) for path in paths]