Re: can't exclude sub-dir

[Shigio Yamaguchi]

Hi,
> Problem:
> i use '(l)arch' as revision control.
> It creates a subdir {arch} in working dir.
> 
> ~/globalrc contains:
> :skip=SCCS/, .. ,"\{arch\}/":\
> 
> Executing 'gtags' gives:
> gtags: cannot compile regular expression.
> 
> Tried various combination of quoting/escaping in
> .globalrc (e.g. '{arch}/' \"\{arch\}/\" ..)
> always throwing the same error.
> 
> Did i simply miss the working quoting?
> Or is impossible to use {} in skip?

This is a quick hack.

With this patch, you can specify '{arch}' directory like this:

        :skip=SCCS/, .. ,{arch}/:\

I'll fix this bug with stable method in near future.
Thank you for your report!

*** find.c.org  Sat May 17 21:00:09 2003
--- find.c      Sat May 17 20:57:52 2003
***************
*** 224,230 ****
                        reg_count++;
                        strbuf_putc(reg, '/');
                        for (q = skipf; *q; q++) {
!                               if (isregexchar(*q))
                                        strbuf_putc(reg, '\\');
                                strbuf_putc(reg, *q);
                        }
--- 224,230 ----
                        reg_count++;
                        strbuf_putc(reg, '/');
                        for (q = skipf; *q; q++) {
!                               if (*q == '.' || *q == '{' || *q == '}')
                                        strbuf_putc(reg, '\\');
                                strbuf_putc(reg, *q);
                        }
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