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Re: svndumpfilter does not exclude some files

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:53:48 -0400

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 October 2012 17:30, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
>> The square brackets are wildcard syntax saying "match any of the characters
>> listed within the brackets". This is part of the syntax of the fnmatch()
>> standard C function
>
> Oh, that makes sense now. That's not the first time I've been bitten
> by using square brackets in my filenames, but oh well.

So why do you do it? Similar to putting spaces and question marks and
quotation marks in file names, it can cause a lot of scripting
confusion for your hook scripts.
Received on 2012-10-15 12:54:23 CEST

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