Solliciting Feedback: Tracking and Storing File Encoding

[Erik van Zijst]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Kevin Bullock
<kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> wrote:
> One nitpick: You say that regexes are "Python/Perl" syntax. Those are two quite different syntaxes. I believe .hgignore uses straight-up Python regexp syntax (possibly with certain operators blacklisted?).

I confess I merely copy/pasted that from the hgignore man page
(https://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html). The idea is to
make hgencoding and hgignore behave identically with regards to
pattern matching.

Cheers,
Erik


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