Re: cvswrappers file

[Derek Robert Price]

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Jim.Hyslop wrote:

>I don't know if you can use regular expressions in cvswrappers - the
>documentation says "wildcards", so I suspect not. I've cc'd this to the
>info-cvs mail list, so that anyone with a little more experience with
>cvswrappers can confirm or deny my allegations ;-)


No, they are not true regex.  They are file glob patterns.  How
complex depends on your platform.  For instance, on Linux and other
glibc platforms, you should find that character lists, character
classes, and equivalence classes work as per the POSIX.2 fnmatch()
specification.  As of the upcoming 1.12.7 feature release of CVS, you
should find that these work on all CVS platforms,  Unfortunately, even
these fairly advanced POSIX globs fall very short of regex syntax.
You can read about them here:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_13_01>,
except that matched paths will never contain `/' in the case of
cvswrappers.

Derek

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