Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/regex with --run

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2020, 17:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPc5daU+w2U_5FBrSYEVO5PB2sOV_fxvBQ1=51_=NMTZooZGmA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEOrYhUBZ112Z7qFgwUYojmus6_Ra0G0Ts4y+n=-D5vMw@mail.gmail.com>

> are you suggesting dropping the regex handling and limit it to
> substring matching?  In either case, does using expr save us anything
> (isn't expr a shell command)?

I had something along this line in mind, not to do a regex but a glob.

case "$title" in $selector) found=1 ;; esac

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