From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:07:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Refspec patterns with * in the middle
Message-ID: <76718490903021407u215fb769g656a8fdc20e622e5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0903021323180.19665@iabervon.org>

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
>> But the following is not:
>>
>>  - foo/bar*/baz
>>
>> IOW, '*' can only appear as a non-terminating symbol if it is bounded
>> by '/' on each side.
>
> You have my criterion right, but I want that to be valid, but only match
> things like "foo/bar-something/baz", not "foo/bar-a/b/baz".

Ah, that makes sense. Perhaps use "**" to mean matching across path
components which is what rsync does:

 o  a '*' matches any non-empty path component (it stops at slashes).
 o  use '**' to match anything, including slashes.

?

j.