D2190: narrowspec: document constraints when validating patterns
durin42 (Augie Fackler)
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Mon Feb 12 20:03:31 UTC 2018
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REVISION DETAIL
https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2190
AFFECTED FILES
hgext/narrow/narrowspec.py
CHANGE DETAILS
diff --git a/hgext/narrow/narrowspec.py b/hgext/narrow/narrowspec.py
--- a/hgext/narrow/narrowspec.py
+++ b/hgext/narrow/narrowspec.py
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@
return len((s + 'x').splitlines())
def _validatepattern(pat):
- """Validates the pattern and aborts if it is invalid."""
+ """Validates the pattern and aborts if it is invalid.
+
+ Patterns are stored in the narrowspec as newline-separated
+ POSIX-style bytestring paths. There's no escaping.
+ """
# We use newlines as separators in the narrowspec file, so don't allow them
# in patterns.
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