Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions rewrite

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:44:35 -0700, Derek Scherger 
<address@hidden> said:

derek> There is also another branch off of this called 
derek> net.venge.monotone.restrictions.wildcard-paths where I've
derek> replaced the --depth argument with optional recursive
derek> directories using a dir/... syntax suggested by njs on the
derek> wiki.

I fail to see how the dir/... syntax can replace --depth.  How do you
express something like 'monotone log dir --depth=3' using the
recursive directory syntax?  I personally have no problem with having
--depth removed, but I think you need to think about the consequences
of removing it.

Also, the ... thing, is it only meant to be at the end of a path
specification, or is it intended to be mixed in, like dir/.../foo.c,
or dir1/.../dir2/dir3.../dir4/foo.c, to take a more complicated
possibility?

derek> Without the trailing "/..." a directory could match only
derek> itsself (--depth=0) or possibly itsself and all of its
derek> immediate children non-recursively (--depth=1). Both of these
derek> seem like useful cases particularly in the "required parent"
derek> directory cases so some feedback on this would be great.

The more I think about it, the harder it is to decide.  Maybe this
indicates that --depth shouldn't be removed after all?

Cheers,
Richard

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