On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
This leaves open the possibility of a future additional match mode for
regular expressions (using the '^:' magic prefix) should we seek to "go
there".
# Match the trunk and branches subdirs and their children.
[repos:^:^/(trunk|branches)(/.*|$)$]
As a user, I'd prefer to see keywords rather than unusual
characters to designate special syntax. For example, I would
prefer [glob:/tags/*/private] and [regex:/tags/.*/private] to
[*:/tags/*/private] and [^:/tags/.*/private].
--apb (Alan Barrett)