From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:21:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore file filter Message-ID: <20050514122134.GF3905@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <4285B6A8.4080309@dgreaves.com> Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:28:24AM CEST, I got a letter where David Greaves told me that... > >>#. ${COGITO_LIB}cg-Xlib > >>_git=${GIT_DIR:-.git} > >> > >> > > > >...but it makes no sense anyway I think to reinclude this stuff from a > >cg-Xfile you are including from other scripts anyway. > > > > > cg-Xignore isn't included - only called. Oh yes, I'm stupid. > it's also just a library program. > Also I don't think cg-Xlib should be doing arg handling. > As an include it should provide an arg handling function that the > scripts call. I'd prefer the few and scattered users which don't want arg handling to explicitly set some magic variable before calling cg-Xlib rather than adding the arg parser function call everywhere else. > >> if [[ $file =~ $patt ]]; then > >> > >> > > > >I'm sorry but this is really nothing my bash-2.05.0(1)-release supports. > >We're already bash-only, but further reducing that to bash3 really won't > >work. I *might* get convinced to add some bash2+-only feature, but only > >if you'll be really good at explaining that it makes sense. > > > > > Ah > OK > I don't know how to do that. > I was actually aiming for glob matching when I came upon this in the > manpage. Ok, so what's the outcome? Are you going to stop at this point, or will you change the scripts so that they use the glob list? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor