Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-18 Thread Branko Čibej
On 17.10.2012 13:53, Stefan Küng wrote: > On 17.10.2012 18:20, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> Anyway, I was just wondering what folks feelings were about this >> possibility, and whether it's finally time to start thinking about >> proper regex support within Subversion. > > I'm wondering: if C++ is an o

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Stefan Sperling wrote on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 20:55:07 +0200: > We could change log --search from glob to regex before release, I suppose. > But I myself don't really miss regex support in log --search. Or we could require the argument to --search to be of the form /^glob:.*$/.

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:32:18PM +0200, Stefan Küng wrote: > In such situations, to keep the compatibility, why not just > introduce a new property, e.g. 'svn:ignore-regex' which if set takes > precedence over the 'svn:ignore' property? Something similar would need to be done for log --search (i

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Stefan Küng
On 17.10.2012 20:17, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:20:20PM -0400, Hyrum K Wright wrote: There are several places where regular expressions would be useful in Subversion. Off hand, the new log --search feature and svn:ignore properties feel like they'd be use candidates for r

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:20:20PM -0400, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > There are several places where regular expressions would be useful in > Subversion. Off hand, the new log --search feature and svn:ignore > properties feel like they'd be use candidates for regexs, and they > could probably also app

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Hyrum K Wright wrote on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 13:46:34 -0400: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > > Hyrum K Wright wrote on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:20:20 -0400: > >> These come at the expenses of a couple of less-used regex features, > > > > PLease be objective/specific: it

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Stefan Küng
On 17.10.2012 18:20, Hyrum K Wright wrote: There are several places where regular expressions would be useful in Subversion. Off hand, the new log --search feature and svn:ignore properties feel like they'd be use candidates for regexs, and they could probably also apply to authz rules eventuall

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Hyrum K Wright wrote on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:20:20 -0400: >> These come at the expenses of a couple of less-used regex features, > > PLease be objective/specific: it doesn't support backreferences and > zero-width lookarounds. Correct (so

Re: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Hyrum K Wright wrote on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:20:20 -0400: > These come at the expenses of a couple of less-used regex features, PLease be objective/specific: it doesn't support backreferences and zero-width lookarounds.

RE: Regular expressions in Subversion

2012-10-17 Thread Bert Huijben
> -Original Message- > From: Hyrum K Wright [mailto:hy...@hyrumwright.org] > Sent: woensdag 17 oktober 2012 18:20 > To: Subversion Development > Subject: Regular expressions in Subversion > > There are several places where regular expressions would be useful in > Subversion. Off hand, t