To whom it may concern, On October 21, 2021, I have inquired on the SVN user mailing list about any means to use glob patterns in *svn:auto-props* that would be more powerful than the Unix *fnmatch* patterns it currently uses.
The need to do so was driven by a desire to have different *svn:auto-props* settings for "*CMakeLists.txt*" (a script file written in the CMake language), and all other "**.txt*" files (general plain text files). It's not too significant in this particular case, in that they are both plain text files, but I can imagine a scenario where the inability to set one property for a specific set of files with a given extension, and another property for all other files with this extension, would be limiting. The *fnmatch* glob syntax does not easily allow this, but the GNU extensions to it allow, for example, the use of "*!(CMakeLists).txt*", which will match anything that "**.txt*" would match, except "*CMakeLists.txt*". For those unfamiliar with the GNU extensions, this is a very good summary (written here for a Python library that duplicates the functionality): https://facelessuser.github.io/wcmatch/fnmatch/ I looked at the SVN DesignNotes wiki, and was unable to find any entries for something like this. So here I am requesting this feature. Please let me know if you have any questions about it. Looking forward to hearing from you! Eugeny Sosnovsky Chief Engineer at Silver Fir Software
