On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:17:44AM -0600, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > 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.
For authz (see issue #2662) we'd need an efficient way of matching a regex against _all_ paths within a given revision. Without some sort of cache (luckily revisions are immutable!) performance would probably go down the drain. The svn:ignore case is simpler.
