Re: [fossil-users] 'ignore-glob' (wildcard) syntax
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Michai Ramakers m.ramak...@gmail.comwrote:
I find myself searching for a description of the exact syntax of the
'ignore-glob' setting every time I use it - in particular, use of
wildcards to specify 'a single subdir', 'a number of subdirs', and
possibly grouping like sh's {..,..}.
Is this documented somewhere?
Hi, Michai,
It is documented, but not somewhere where the average user will find it:
http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/968a3f5b9e203af3053939639533ee7b26259836?ln=143-157
In brief: it's a subset of Unix shell globbing rules, but not including
{a,b,c} globs.
Fossil doesn't generally know about/do anything special for directories.
e.g. it cannot version control a directory, only files. Thus many commands
do not operate at the directory level (as you've already noticed). AFAIK,
there are no wildcards which restrict behaviour to a specific subdir, and
i'm not certain if the following (or something similar) would work for the
ignore-glob:
temp/*
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Re: [fossil-users] 'ignore-glob' (wildcard) syntax
On 28 December 2013 14:48, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Michai Ramakers m.ramak...@gmail.com
wrote:
I find myself searching for a description of the exact syntax of the
'ignore-glob' setting every time I use it - in particular, use of
wildcards to specify 'a single subdir', 'a number of subdirs', and
possibly grouping like sh's {..,..}.
Is this documented somewhere?
Hi, Michai,
It is documented, but not somewhere where the average user will find it:
http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/968a3f5b9e203af3053939639533ee7b26259836?ln=143-157
I had to laugh a bit, thank you for that :)
But ok, without looking at the code hard, I conclude that a file/path
is passed in as opaque string, and matched against the glob. So '*'
will cross directory-boundaries ('/') in the file-/path-name.
I'm not sure what would happen for multiple '*' in a glob-string, but
I think there are no use-cases for that, at least not here.
AFAIK,
there are no wildcards which restrict behaviour to a specific subdir, and
i'm not certain if the following (or something similar) would work for the
ignore-glob:
temp/*
Right. I just tried that here; in my head it should work, and indeed
it does (i.e. files in 'temp' are ignored for e.g. the 'extra'
command).
Thanks for the clue,
Michai
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Re: [fossil-users] 'ignore-glob' (wildcard) syntax
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 03:11:32PM +0100, Michai Ramakers wrote: On 28 December 2013 14:48, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Michai Ramakers m.ramak...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I'm not sure what would happen for multiple '*' in a glob-string, but I think there are no use-cases for that, at least not here. AFAIK, there are no wildcards which restrict behaviour to a specific subdir, and i'm not certain if the following (or something similar) would work for the ignore-glob: temp/* Right. I just tried that here; in my head it should work, and indeed it does (i.e. files in 'temp' are ignored for e.g. the 'extra' command). Multiple '*' work and in my case I use that: */obj/* per example. Any subdir 'obj' in the repo will have it contents ignored. -- Martin G. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] 'ignore-glob' (wildcard) syntax
On 28 December 2013 15:16, Martin Gagnon eme...@gmail.com wrote: Multiple '*' work and in my case I use that: */obj/* per example. Any subdir 'obj' in the repo will have it contents ignored. d'oh, that's useful indeed, thx. Michai ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
