From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Refspec patterns with * in the middle
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:07:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490903021407u215fb769g656a8fdc20e622e5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0903021323180.19665@iabervon.org>
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
>> But the following is not:
>>
>> - foo/bar*/baz
>>
>> IOW, '*' can only appear as a non-terminating symbol if it is bounded
>> by '/' on each side.
>
> You have my criterion right, but I want that to be valid, but only match
> things like "foo/bar-something/baz", not "foo/bar-a/b/baz".
Ah, that makes sense. Perhaps use "**" to mean matching across path
components which is what rsync does:
o a '*' matches any non-empty path component (it stops at slashes).
o use '**' to match anything, including slashes.
?
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-02 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-01 23:42 [RFC] Refspec patterns with * in the middle Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-02 12:54 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-02 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-02 18:01 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-02 18:25 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-02 22:07 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2009-03-02 22:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-02 22:58 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-02 23:00 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-02 23:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-03 16:25 ` David Kastrup
2009-03-02 18:22 ` Daniel Barkalow
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