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Issue with built-in cvsignore patterns
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Gregor N. Purdy
Nov 10, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/10/00
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I'd like to question the presence of the cvsignore pattern '_$*'
as listed in doc/cvs.texinfo in the cvs 1.11 distribution. I think
this is intended to match files with names like '_$foo' and '_$',
but instead it matches (only?) the file '_' on my system under
ksh and sh. This is probably due to '$' being taken as end-
of-string in the matching algorithm. To get the behavior I
think is intended, I have to use the pattern '_\$*'.
as listed in doc/cvs.texinfo in the cvs 1.11 distribution. I think
this is intended to match files with names like '_$foo' and '_$',
but instead it matches (only?) the file '_' on my system under
ksh and sh. This is probably due to '$' being taken as end-
of-string in the matching algorithm. To get the behavior I
think is intended, I have to use the pattern '_\$*'.
The other pattern with '$' in it is '*$', which does appear to
find names ending in '$' on my system (despite the issue
above). I think the patterns used in cvsignore should work
as-is on shells. The system I'm doing this on doesn't have
bash installed, or I would have tried that, too.
Regards,
-- Gregor
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