[Bug-gnu-arch] [bug #5331] tagging regexps not composable from mulitple entries

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Changes by: Anonymous user        Date: Sat 11/08/2003 at 09:50

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Eh?  The "fully specified" regexps become just a special case of only one 
regexp given.



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Submitted by: None                    Project: GNU arch -- a revision control 
system
Submitted on: Tue 09/16/2003 at 01:06
Category:  tla                        Severity:  5 - Major                  
Bug Group:  small feature idea        Resolution:  None                     
Status:  Open                         Release:                              
Fixed Release:                        Merge Request?:  None                 
Your Archive Name:                    Your Archive Location:                
Assigned to:  None                    

Summary:  tagging regexps not composable from mulitple entries

Original Submission:  

It would helpful for maintainability and readability purposes if multiple 
entries for a category regexp could be built in 'or' clauses from multiple 
entries, like this:



precious ^pat1$

precious ^pat2$



which would imply:



precious (^pat1$|^pat2$)



This way, various commonly used subpatterns could be grouped together and 
cut/pasted between various projects.  It's also more easily readable than very 
long single regexps.





Follow-up Comments
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Date: Sat 11/08/2003 at 09:50       By: None
Eh?  The "fully specified" regexps become just a special case of only one 
regexp given.

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Date: Sat 11/08/2003 at 06:34       By: robertc
the patches look reasonable.... but what about backwards compatability with 
fully specified regexes? There's no explicit provision for that.

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Date: Sun 10/12/2003 at 14:12       By: walters
This is now implemented in my archive:

address@hidden http://arch.verbum.org/arch



See patch-38 and patch-39.






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