Re: [Monotone-devel] Suggestion: Use wildcards for specifying collections

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:03:28 -0700, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> >  monotone --regexp pull host 'net\.venge\.monotone($|.+)'
njs> 
njs> I think if we did that it would be as a UI trick only, and convert to
njs> some preferred form internally.  Netsync itself should only support
njs> one (and I guess if we wanted to support regexes at all, that one had
njs> better be regex, since they're way more expressive than globs...)

I entirely agree with that.  And converting globs to regexps is also
very easy.  That's something I could implement, if you want.

Cheers,
Richard

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