Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, May 04, 2017 at 13:26:30 +0200: > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > Doug Robinson wrote on Wed, May 03, 2017 at 15:54:50 -0400: > ... > >> Not seeing it - at least not yet. In Perl the RE needed to handle > >> this would be one of the duals, e.g. "/trunk/iota(|/.*)" - the > >> either/or with nothing on the left and "/.*" on the right. It really > >> is a dual case. I know of no better syntax. Since we're working on > >> this as a wildcard I don't see an alternative. > > > > Off the top of my head, we could have [/trunk/iota/***] and > > [/trunk/iota/**] with different meanings (the former applies to > > a /trunk/iota file, the latter doesn't). Does anyone else (besides Doug > > and I) have ideas here? > > Hmm, /*** doesn't look like something I'd remember easily, if I wanted > to use that feature as an svn admin.
I cribbed the syntax from zsh and rsync, which both define a "***" token in their glob expressions. (In zsh, *** is like ** but recurses into symlinks-to-directories as well. In rsync, *** is similar to ** but can match zero path components in the construct "foo/***)
