Re: [PATCH] Regexp support for svn:ignore

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> On 6/19/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
> > On 6/17/06, Osku Salerma <osku@iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > > The patch is more or less a proof-of-concept, with at least the following
> > > issues to be decided/solved before it can be finished:
> > >
> > > * Do we even want to add a new dependency for a regexp library?
> >
> > I'm not overly thrilled with this honestly...
>
> We already use fnmatch(), so my gut says that catches 80% of the
> actual uses people want with svn:ignores - wildcards, etc. So, +0 on
> adding regex support until we come up with a use for it outside of
> svn:ignore - if we have regex for some other reason, this can come
> along then. -- justin

I had a cursory look through the mail archives for other uses people have
expressed interest in regexps for, and came up with the following:

* auto-props

* svn diff -F (and possibly -p?)

* config files (e.g. http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-12/0989.shtml)

If implementing any/all of the above would make it acceptable to add the
PCRE dependency, I'm willing to do it to get the svn:ignore part in.

--
Osku Salerma - osku_at_iki.fi - http://www.oskusoft.com/osku/
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