Re: Allowing regular expression in --allow-root option

[Derek R. Price]

"Hier, Steve" wrote:

> I've been using a patch like this for years -- it is quite handy to be able
> to specify a "family" of directories that are valid instead of creating
> some huge (in many cases too large to pass) command line...
>
> Regular expressions would be an improvement from what I'm using.
> My patch allows one to specify the a "root node" from which repositories
> can be used under.

I'm not sure how generally useful this is, but I also can't really see it as a
bad thing.

I don't like this fix though, for a number of reasons:

1)  You haven't attached a ChangeLog entry, doc/cvs.texinfo documentation
changes, or src/sanity.sh test cases.  See the HACKING file in the top level
of the CVS source distribution for more.

2)  I don't want the old behavior of the --alow-root option changed.  Add a
--allow-root-regexp option.

3)  If we're going to go this far, full regexps should be allowed.  The
argument to --allow-root-regexp should be matched against the entire path.

If you want to go ahead with this, create an issue on ccvs.cvshome.org with
this information, including the above design considerations and any comments
you may like to add, then create the new patch and attach it to the issue.

Derek

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