From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:13:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-config-set: add more options
Message-ID: <7vr79b3i7e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511200650130.12832@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 	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.