Re: pattern for specifying svn:ignore for files without extension

Ryan Schmidt wrote on Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 13:33:50 -0600:
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> On Dec 1, 2010, at 13:31, Steve Cohen wrote:
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> > The build process of the application I am bringing under svn creates a number of unix binary executables that have no extension : for example
> >
> > abcde
> > fghqp
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > I believe that * will match any files with or without periods so it isn't suitable. Is there a pattern specifier that would embrace all files without an extension?
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> I can't think of a way to do that.
>

svn:ignore patterns are apr_fnmatch() patterns, and apr_fnmatch() does
accept regex-like [a-z] expressions in its patterns, so you could try

[a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z]

to ignore all 5-lowercase-character filenames. :-)

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> > Alternatively, one common differentiating aspect of these files is that they have executable privileges. Being able to svn:ignore based on this would be a nice feature to have.
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> Unfortunately that feature doesn't exist either.
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Received on 2010-12-02 07:34:01 CET