[Monotone-devel] Excluding branches with shell patterns (was: ANNOUNCE: monotone 0.20)

[Peter Simons]

Nathaniel Smith writes:

 >> |   pull [ADDRESS[:PORTNUMBER] [PATTERN]]

 > It's a shell pattern. (It was a regex for a while during
 > development, so it's an outdated message.)

One feature I depended on is the ability to negate matches.
With (Boost's) regular expressions, I could say

  foo\.(?!bar)\.*

to match, say "foo.abc", but not "foo.bar". How do I do this
with shell patterns now?

Peter