Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Serving * does not work

[Alvaro Herrera]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:32:32AM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> > As a sidenote, this will happen more often as monotone becomes more
> > widespread, since ppl tend to be confused by tools which implement
> > their own globbing syntax (cf. 'find'). Especially so when it's
> > differing from shell semantics or limited to a subset of it.
> > 
> > We had a discussion about this some months ago, and I still think the
> > current approach puts an unnecessary burden on users.
> 
> Hrm.  Do you have any better suggestions?  There just aren't that many
> plausible pattern matching syntaxes out there, AFAIK...

SQL "like" syntax!

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