[Monotone-devel] Re: ANNOUNCE: monotone 0.20

[Richard Levitte]

Peter Simons writes: 

> Nathaniel Smith writes: 
>
>  > 0.20 release.  features, ui improvements, performance
>  > improvements, and bug fixes.
>  >
>  > [...]
>  >
>  >   - where you used to say, e.g., "monotone pull
>  >     net.venge.monotone", you should instead say "monotone
>  >     pull net.venge.monotone*". This may require
>  >     shell-quoting. 
>
> Is it a shell pattern or a regular expression?

It's a glob (shell pattern), as I understand it. 

> The NEWS file suggests it would be a shell pattern, but the
> --help output says ... well, both: 
>
>  |   pull [ADDRESS[:PORTNUMBER] [PATTERN]]
>  |     pull branches matching REGEX from netsync server at ADDRESS

I think that goes under the expression "oops"  :-). 

Cheers,
Richard 

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