Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: category version limited to digits and dots

[Milan Cvetkovic]

Miles Bader wrote:
> Milan Cvetkovic <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > So, I want to say "lets see all the branches project release v1"
> >
> > $ tla abrowse project--v1
> >   project
> >     project--v1-release
> >       project--v1-release--1.0
> >       project--v1-release--1.1
> >
> > but wait, I didn't want v1.1 - I only wanted v1 !
>
>
> I presume you meant `rbrowse' (where the limit term is a regular
> expression), not `abrowse' (wher it's not); then:

No, I actually meant "tla abrowse project--v1-release" (abrowse with 
limit, limit to second component)

>    tla rbrowse project--v1-
>
> should do what you want.

Yes, it does it, but again, with 1.0 and 1.1 next to each other.

I would probably have to think over the exact regex for rbrowse - 
somewhere along the line of "project--v1-.*--1\.0"
This is very annoying if you have slow cycles, where you have say dozens 
of patch releases before you release the next major one.

> > tla abrowse, I would like to group branches related to devo-3.0 or 
> > stable-2.0. Nobody is interested any more for 1.0 and its patches - it 
> > is in the archive for historical reasons.
>
>
>    tla rbrowse 'project--v[23]\.0-'
>
>
> > Now I know why this limitation is there (ability to do "tla get 
> > proj--branch"), but I still wish it weren't. :-)
>
>
> I'm with you:  even though I find the current syntax pretty usable, I
> wish arch had a more flexible syntax that allowed arbitrarily nested
> components, with `version' components going anywhere the user chooses.
Syntax is OK - three components of the proj/version/branch are normally 
enough - if given the choice to move them around.

> This wouldn't be too hard to do, if starting from scratch -- but we're
> not starting from scratch.  For better or for worse, arch uses the
> syntax it uses; changing it is a Big Deal, and basically isn't going to
> happen.  So things go...

I don't see it being "Big Deal" though, since I see "not limiting 
version to [0-9\.]" order of magnitude more usuful than "only allow 
[0-9\.] in order to do "tla get proj--branch"

Thanks, Milan.
> -Miles