Re: [Monotone-devel] Excluding branches with shell patterns (was: ANNOUNCE: monotone 0.20)

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:47 +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith writes:
> 
>  >> |   pull [ADDRESS[:PORTNUMBER] [PATTERN]]
> 
>  > It's a shell pattern. (It was a regex for a while during
>  > development, so it's an outdated message.)
> 
> One feature I depended on is the ability to negate matches.
> With (Boost's) regular expressions, I could say
> 
>   foo\.(?!bar)\.*
> 
> to match, say "foo.abc", but not "foo.bar". How do I do this
> with shell patterns now?

I don't think you can. There seems to be some code for specifying
excluded patterns, but it's not complete.

Tim