Ryan Schmidt wrote on Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 13:33:50 -0600: > > On Dec 1, 2010, at 13:31, Steve Cohen wrote: > > > The build process of the application I am bringing under svn creates a > > number of unix binary executables that have no extension : for example > > > > abcde > > fghqp > > > > etc. > > > > I believe that * will match any files with or without periods so it isn't > > suitable. Is there a pattern specifier that would embrace all files > > without an extension? > > I can't think of a way to do that. >
svn:ignore patterns are apr_fnmatch() patterns, and apr_fnmatch() does accept regex-like [a-z] expressions in its patterns, so you could try [a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z] to ignore all 5-lowercase-character filenames. :-) > > > Alternatively, one common differentiating aspect of these files is that > > they have executable privileges. Being able to svn:ignore based on this > > would be a nice feature to have. > > Unfortunately that feature doesn't exist either. > >
