[Gnu-arch-users] =tagging-method and non-portable filenames

[Joe Osborn]

Hello, List!

I'm a Mac OS X developer doing revision control with Arch; I love it.  
It's the best software of its kind that I've seen outside of 
Smalltalk's changeset system, and it's only not that because it's 
language-agnostic, which is really fine, it can't be aware without 
being inflexible, and Smalltalk's system is a part of the image, etc ad 
infinitum.

I'm running into a problem, however, which is inconveniencing me.  Some 
changes I make to =tagging-method's regexen for the different file 
types(Excluded, Precious, Junk, Backup) are effective and tla inventory 
will give me a proper list by the types given.  However, changes to 
Unrecognized do nothing, and Source seems ineffective too.  While it 
may be I'm writing bad regex, my goal is to allow non-portable file 
names, as a lot of mine are, to be put under version control as 
sources.  The following line:

source ^([_=a-zA-Z0-9[:space:][:punct:]].*)$

is either malformed or ineffective.  Which is it?  File names like "3rd 
Edition, Revised" and "Ice Age" still fall into the Unrecognized 
section with this regex, even though

find . [_=a-zA-Z0-9[:space:][:punct:]].*

works fine.  Is the limitation on the usage of non-portable file names 
a basic assumption of Arch?  Is there a workaround?  Am I just a fool?

This is equally not-working in larch and tla.  Any suggestions?


__joe


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