Re: svn commit: r1383480 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion: svn/cl.h svn/log-cmd.c svn/main.c tests/cmdline/getopt_tests_data/svn_help_log_switch_stdout tests/cmdline/log_tests.py

Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 23:42:14 +0200:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:30:30PM -0700, Bert Huijben wrote:
> > Fnmatch support is in apr(-util?) and has known access/performance patterns,
> > so we might be able to move the search handling to the server in the future
> > for performance reasons.
> >
> > Complete regular expression support would at least require using a new third
> > party library and moving it to the server is not really possible because
> > complete regular expression processing can be way to expensive.
>
> What he said. I was about to write the same response :)
>
> I *did* search for regex stuff in APR and other existing dependencies
> and then settled on fnmatch. httpd has a regex engine but it's not
> part of APR for some reason. I wouldn't have a problem using that
> in the client if it were available, but it isn't.

Ah!

I was sure APR had regex support for some reason...
Received on 2012-09-20 23:45:47 CEST