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> I am ok create issue on Checkstyle to generate HTML repor For regression, we don't need this. `patch-diff-report-tool` creates the final HTML report for us. We don't use the...

> this is result of maven-jxr-plugin `patch-diff-report-tool` generates this via `JavaCodeTransform` and `TextTransform`. This is why we have these code transforms in the tool. https://github.com/checkstyle/contribution/blob/master/patch-diff-report-tool/src/main/java/com/github/checkstyle/site/XrefGenerator.java#L136-L160 If you look at the...

@romani If you have any other doubts, see https://github.com/checkstyle/contribution/pull/274 . I was able to update my utility with no problems and didn't need any 3rd party dependencies or maven.

If this issue is completed, close https://github.com/checkstyle/contribution/issues/255

` -Dassembly.skipAssembly=true` has to be added to the assembly of the all jar to skip creating the extra files that are not needed.

@nrmancuso ping. What blocks this?

Exclude list is needed for no violation/exception runs. If we do those type of runs with those projects, then we need it.

@nmancus1 Feel free to start when you are ready.

> #524 and #527 - finish PR for new github repos. This is optional for the improvements and can be skipped since there is an issue in merging it.

> If we need the latest code of the project, we should use master tag in property file Specifying `master` will not force git to do a fetch and work...