[SvnBook] #69: Do a better job describing what "file patterns" are (around svn:ignores)

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Fri Aug 10 21:16:08 CDT 2007


#69: Do a better job describing what "file patterns" are (around svn:ignores)
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 Reporter:  cmpilato     |       Owner:  nobody       
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  1.5          
Component:  content      |     Version:  nightly/trunk
 Keywords:               |  
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 David Glasser wrote:
 > On 7/13/06, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com> wrote:
 >> I agree we could have been more forthright in this section.  The
 >> respected
 >> metacharacters are basically just those supported by fnmatch(), and
 >> that's
 >> why we toss the word "file patterns" around so much.  It's not that
 >> Subversion specifically disallows parentheses -- it's that parentheses
 >> have
 >> no special meaning in the fnmatch() system.
 >
 > Great; I might patch up a sidebar or something if I get a chance.
 > (It's a shame that even apr_fnmatch itself doesn't really seem to be
 > documented.)

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