On Oct 7, 2010, at 15:29, Feldhacker, Chris wrote:
> Where can I find more complete information on global-ignores and the expected format/syntax of the patterns?
>
> The svnbook just indicates:
> The global-ignores option is a list of whitespace-delimited globs which describe the names of files and directories that Subversion should not display unless they are versioned.
> The default value is *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store
You must be reading an old version of the book; the current version shows "The default value is *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store ."
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.confarea.html#id531554
> At first I assumed this just performed wild-card matching, but looking at the default list within the config file that was created on my machine (Windows) I see this:
>
> global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo
> *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store
>
> Based on the presence of the "[0-9]" set, I assume something a bit more than just wild-card matching must be performed but apparently something less than full regular expressions...
>
> The wikipedia entry for "glob" indicates this is just a generic term that refers to a limited pattern-matching facility, which seems to vary by programming language or shell, and "there is no definite syntax for globs..."
>
>
> So, where can I find more complete information on the "glob" syntax that Subversion uses for the global-ignores option, and is it consistent across OSes?
I could not find documentation about the specifics of the glob format in the Subversion book, so I dove into the code. In subversion/libsvn/subr/svn_string.c I found the funciton svn_cstring_match_glob_list which just calls through to APR's apr_fnmatch function. And in APR's source file include/apr_fnmatch.h there is a long comment describing how it works:
/**
* Try to match the string to the given pattern, return APR_SUCCESS if
* match, else return APR_FNM_NOMATCH. Note that there is no such thing as
* an illegal pattern.
*
* With all flags unset, a pattern is interpreted as such:
*
* PATTERN: Backslash followed by any character, including another
* backslash.<br/>
* MATCHES: That character exactly.
*
* <p>
* PATTERN: ?<br/>
* MATCHES: Any single character.
* </p>
*
* <p>
* PATTERN: *<br/>
* MATCHES: Any sequence of zero or more characters. (Note that multiple
* *s in a row are equivalent to one.)
*
* PATTERN: Any character other than \?*[ or a \ at the end of the pattern<br/>
* MATCHES: That character exactly. (Case sensitive.)
*
* PATTERN: [ followed by a class description followed by ]<br/>
* MATCHES: A single character described by the class description.
* (Never matches, if the class description reaches until the
* end of the string without a ].) If the first character of
* the class description is ^ or !, the sense of the description
* is reversed. The rest of the class description is a list of
* single characters or pairs of characters separated by -. Any
* of those characters can have a backslash in front of them,
* which is ignored; this lets you use the characters ] and -
* in the character class, as well as ^ and ! at the
* beginning. The pattern matches a single character if it
* is one of the listed characters or falls into one of the
* listed ranges (inclusive, case sensitive). Ranges with
* the first character larger than the second are legal but
* never match. Edge cases: [] never matches, and [^] and [!]
* always match without consuming a character.
*
* Note that these patterns attempt to match the entire string, not
* just find a substring matching the pattern.
*
* @param pattern The pattern to match to
* @param strings The string we are trying to match
* @param flags flags to use in the match. Bitwise OR of:
* <pre>
* APR_FNM_NOESCAPE Disable backslash escaping
* APR_FNM_PATHNAME Slash must be matched by slash
* APR_FNM_PERIOD Period must be matched by period
* APR_FNM_CASE_BLIND Compare characters case-insensitively.
* </pre>
*/
In svn_cstring_match_glob_list, Subversion calls apr_fnmatch with no flags set.
Received on 2010-10-08 04:08:24 CEST