Re: Updated Issue 212 - sync needs list of include patterns (monotone)

Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]> on Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:04:40 -0400, Stephen Leake <[email protected]> said:

stephen_leake> Stephen Leake <[email protected]> writes:
stephen_leake> 
stephen_leake> >> In the user manual, the URI syntax is described as:
stephen_leake> >>
stephen_leake> >> <scheme>://[[<user>@@]<host>[:<port>]][/<path>][?<pattern>[;-<exclude-pattern>[...]]]
stephen_leake> >>
stephen_leake> >> That says there is only one include pattern, but multiple exclude
stephen_leake> >> patterns. The examples only show one include and one exclude.
stephen_leake> >>
stephen_leake> >> I suggest we change it to this:
stephen_leake> >>
stephen_leake> >> <scheme>://[[<user>@@]<host>[:<port>]][/<path>][?<include-pattern>[;<include-or-exclude-pattern>]...]
stephen_leake> >
stephen_leake> > Actually, the first pattern can also be an exclude. So a simpler syntax
stephen_leake> > is this:
stephen_leake> >
stephen_leake> > <scheme>://[[<user>@@]<host>[:<port>]][/<path>][?<pattern>[;<pattern>]...]
stephen_leake> >
stephen_leake> > Branches matching a pattern are excluded if the pattern starts with
stephen_leake> > '-', included otherwise.
stephen_leake> 
stephen_leake> One more try:
stephen_leake> 
stephen_leake> <scheme>://[[<user>@@]<host>[:<port>]][/<path>][?[-]<pattern>[;[-]<pattern>]...]
stephen_leake> Branches matching a pattern are excluded if the pattern is preceded by
stephen_leake> '-', included otherwise.

That looks perfect :-)

Cheers,
Richard

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