On Dec 2, 2010, at 08:43, Luke Imhoff wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 00:31 -0600, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> 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. :-) > > If it accepts regex,
It doesn't. Daniel said it accepts "regex-like ... expressions". In fact, looking at the source code, I would rather say that it accepts glob-like expressions. The comments at the top of the function in the source code have all the details about the syntax that is supported: http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/1.3/apr__fnmatch_8h-source.html#l00067 > why not just use the original criteria where it > excludes extensions: > > [^.]* In particular, the syntax described states that "*" matches "zero or more characters". It does not mean, as it does in regular expression syntax, "zero or more of the preceding". So I don't think what you describe is possible to do with the available syntax.
