Re: svn:ignore Question

In a message dated: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:23:22 PDT
Justin Erenkrantz said:

>Namely, I believe fnmatch doesn't support [xyz]* expressions. I could be
>wrong, but that's what the Solaris man page on fnmatch(5) leads me to
>believe.

Prior to your explanation, I had no knowledge of how svn dealt with
regexes. However, after reading the man page for fnmatch(3) for
Linux, I find that it simply states:

    The fnmatch() function checks whether the string argument
    matches the pattern argument, which is a shell wildcard
    pattern.

So, if it's a 'shell wildcard pattern' then it *should* support
character class ( [n-m]* ) expressions. Since (on linux) fnmatch(3)
refers to glob(7), I reviewed that man page, which says:

   The rules are as follows (POSIX 1003.2, 3.13).

  WILDCARD MATCHING
   Character classes
     An expression `[...]' where the first character after the
     leading `[' is not an `!' matches a single character,
     namely any of the characters enclosed by the brackets.
     ...
        
   Ranges
     There is one special convention: two characters separated
     by `-' denote a range.
     ...

Which seems to indicate it *should* handle character classes and
ranges. However, glob(3) also goes on to say:

NOTES
   Regular expressions
       Note that wildcard patterns are not regular expressions,
       although they are a bit similar. First of all, they match
       filenames, rather than text, and secondly, the conventions
       are not the same: e.g., in a regular expression `*' means
       zero or more copies of the preceding thing.

       Now that regular expressions have bracket expressions
       where the negation is indicated by a `^', POSIX has
       declared the effect of a wildcard pattern `[^...]' to be
       undefined.

So, IMO, [m-n]* _should_ work, but the above leads me to believe that
it might not :)

Anyone know for certain either way?

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