Re: [Monotone-devel] Suggestion: Use wildcards for specifying collections

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:10:26 -0700, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> As in incremental improvement, it might be interesting to keep the
njs> current collection code while switching to pattern-matched branch
njs> specifications for collections, but it seems a little user-hostile to
njs> tell people that they must type exactly "pull venge.net
njs> net\.venge\.monotone($|.+)" or else their collection won't match
njs> anything in the server's list of offered collections...

Hmm, a different idea is to offer globbing AND regexps.  Regexps being
for "more advanced" users could require adding the no-argument option
--regexp or --re, basically telling monotone what to expect.
Something like this:

        monotone --regexp pull host 'net\.venge\.monotone($|.+)'

Cheers,
Richard

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