Re: [Monotone-devel] UI to push/pull/sync

[Derek Scherger]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Currently, on mainline, push/pull/sync have been changed to take a
> regular expression instead of a collection -- collections don't exist
> anymore.  Functionally, this is great; UI-wise, I'm wondering how cool
> it really is to be typing "net\.venge\.monotone(|\..*)" or whatever?
> Would it be better to have a UI that took any number of globs, and
> used those?  So like:
>   $ monotone pull net.venge.monotone net.venge.monotone.*
> would be equivalent to the above regexp; and
>   $ monotone pull net.venge.monotone*
> would be equivalent to the current net.venge.monotone collection?

My vote would be in favour of simpler-to-type globbing.

> Maybe with a --regexp switch that switches it over to being
> interpreted as a regexp, for the cases when you want that?

I actually kinda liked the early regex code that took an unadorned
string as a simple collection and a /string/ as a regex. Persumably now
the unadorned string could be taken as a glob instead of a collection
prefix.

Cheers,
Derek