def prune_file_list(self):
        """Prune off branches that might slip into the file list as created
        by 'read_template()', but really don't belong there:
          * the build tree (typically "build")
          * the release tree itself (only an issue if we ran "sdist"
            previously with --keep-temp, or it aborted)
          * any RCS, CVS, .svn, .hg, .git, .bzr, _darcs directories
        """
        build = self.get_finalized_command('build')
        base_dir = self.distribution.get_fullname()

        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=build.build_base)
        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=base_dir)

        if sys.platform == 'win32':
            seps = r'/|\\'
        else:
            seps = '/'

        vcs_dirs = ['RCS', 'CVS', r'\.svn', r'\.hg', r'\.git', r'\.bzr', '_darcs']
        vcs_ptrn = r'(^|{})({})({}).*'.format(seps, '|'.join(vcs_dirs), seps)
        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(vcs_ptrn, is_regex=1)
Prune off branches that might slip into the file list as created
        by 'read_template()', but really don't belong there:
          * the build tree (typically "build")
          * the release tree itself (only an issue if we ran "sdist"
            previously with --keep-temp, or it aborted)
          * any RCS, CVS, .svn, .hg, .git, .bzr, _darcs directories
        
product/gradle-plugin/src/main/python/setuptools/_distutils/command/sdist.py