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Re: [PATCH] git-config-set: add more options

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 20, 2005, 07:13 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> 	The only thing I am concerned about now is how to deal with
> 	anti value_regex's, i.e.
>...
> 	Note: we could adjust the pattern syntax so that a prefix "!"
> 	means "no match", and "\!" means "match literal !", but this
> 	is ugly.

I do not think it is so bad, except that I would not even bother doing the quoting of prefix '!'; the user can always say '[!]' to mean a positive match that begins with an exclamation point.

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  1. git-config-set: add more optionsJohannes Schindelin, Nov 20, 2005
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  3. git-config-set: support selecting values by non-matching regexJohannes Schindelin, Nov 20, 2005

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