From bf6815b4bc592996962fb7b5a81196194d065c9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malte Pickhan <malte.pickhan@zalando.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:52:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH]  extend readme with example for package exclusion.

---
 README.adoc | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 34aa851b..dafe5c64 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ For source formatting, add the `spring-javaformat-gradle-plugin` to your `build`
 The plugin adds `format` and `checkFormat` tasks to your project.
 The `checkFormat` task is automatically applied when running the standard Gradle `check` task.
 
+In case you want to exclude a package from being checked, for example if you generate sources, you can do this by adding following configuration:
+
+```
+tasks.withType(io.spring.javaformat.gradle.CheckTask) {
+    exclude "package/to/exclude"
+}
+```
+
 ==== Checkstyle
 To enforce checksyle conventions add the checkstyle plugin and include a dependency on `spring-javaformat-checkstyle`: