On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Bert Huijben <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: dinsdag 31 januari 2012 5:08 >> To: Daniel Shahaf >> Cc: Bert Huijben; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: regexp matching in svn? > > >> My most immediate problem is solved, because that's about generating >> nice diffs on the server for post-commit emails. My server runs on >> Solaris, and we have diffutils 3.2 installed now. Problem solved >> (except that svnlook doesn't support --diff-cmd, so I have to fall >> back to 'svn' for this, but anyway ...). > > Adding --diff-cmd to svnlook should be easier than adding regex support :)
We've batted around the idea of allowing regexes in svn:ignore properties and authz files, but without proper regex support in Subversion we can't. While I'm not saying we should add such support now, I am pointing out that there are more use cases that simply those covered by 'svnlook --diff-cmd'. -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
