[cvsnt] Re: How do I use module2?

[John Kinson]

Then the syntax supported by CVSnt in the Modules2 file is not just that 
of extended regular expressions - you've added in file globbing, or a 
subset thereof. (e.g. as described in 
http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/globbingref.html)

The statement "You can also mask certain files within a directory, or 
certain subdirectories using an extended regular expression." in 
http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/modules2.html is misleading.  It ought to 
say you can use EREs or filename expansion metacharacters, and explain 
which ones you've implemented.

Mixing both syntaxes sounds like a recipe for disaster though IMHO - how 
can you determine whether a '*' is an RE quantifier or a 
match-any-characters glob? (in e.g. 'gui.*.cpp')

JK

Tony Hoyle wrote:

> John Kinson wrote:
> 
>> Tony, your ERE example in the manual isn't right (unless you've 
>> implemented a non-standard RE engine).
>>
>> In the line
>>
>>     / = myproject (*\.cpp$|*\.[ch]$|*/$)
>>
>> Surely that should either be
>>
>>     / = myproject (.*\.cpp$|.*\.[ch]$|.*/$)
>>
>> or more simply
>>
>>     / = myproject (\.cpp$|\.[ch]$|/$)
>>
> Actually all 3 should work, but the first one is a little bit more like 
> the way Windows users expect it to work (the regexp engine implicitly
> translates * in the first character to .*).
> 
> eg. you can use (*.cpp) and it'll work (but might bring back some
> unexpected files in that case)
> 
> Tony


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