glob instead of regexp
Soh Tk-r28629
tksoh at freescale.com
Thu Jul 14 23:51:38 UTC 2005
> But your point is valid, so I suggest:
>
> anything_without_colons -> glob pattern
> glob:foobar -> glob pattern
> re:foobar or regexp:foobar -> regexp pattern
> other:foobar -> some other matching algorithm added in the future,
> e.g. plain: which doesn't interpret any character
> in a special way.
> foobie:foobar -> hg will complain about an unknown pattern scheme
> "foobie".
+1 from me, except perhaps 'anything without colons' can be 'everything not begining with a flag (flag = 're:^\w+:')'.
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