[PATCH] match: adding support for repository-root-based globs

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 10/25/2016 09:41 AM, Rodrigo Damazio Bovendorp via Mercurial-devel wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Rodrigo Damazio Bovendorp <rdamazio at google.com>
> # Date 1475944120 25200
> #      Sat Oct 08 09:28:40 2016 -0700
> # Node ID e8454de81600e092f05aa22ecbac32925b70d074
> # Parent  260af19891f2bed679a662be07d1379bb8207592
> match: adding support for repository-root-based globs
>
> The broader plan is to add explicit base directories for all patterns:
> ============ ======== ======= ===========
> pattern type root-ed  cwd-ed  any-of-path
> ============ ======== ======= ===========
> wildcard     rootglob cwdglob anyglob
> regexp       rootre   cwdre   anyre
> raw string   rootpath cwdpath anypath
> ============ ======== ======= ===========
> (table by foozy)

The subject seems complicated enough that creating a Plan page seems 
relevant. This would help other people to follow what the problem space.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WriteANewFeaturePlan

> I'm starting by adding rootglob.
> One important characteristic and difference from the older glob types is
> that * will never match recursively, even when the glob is used as an include
> pattern.

This seems a bit strange to me. Given that the current glob matcher is 
already not recursive, why don't we work on an alternative non recursive 
-I flag instead?

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David