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RE: rcsinfo/loginfo exclude directories
From: |
Bulgrien, Kevin |
Subject: |
RE: rcsinfo/loginfo exclude directories |
Date: |
Thu, 5 May 2005 16:32:48 -0500 |
You are confusing [^] with ^
^test-mode matches from the beginning of the line. [^1234] matches
a character other than 1234.
http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html
I am not aware of a general purpose "not" for regular expressions.
As a rule, regular expressions try to match something, not "not
match" something.
Kevin R. Bulgrien
Product Engineer
General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tripointglobal.com/
VertexRSI
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> hi,
> how does one specify, in the common syntax, the exclusion of a file?
> For example, I want to apply a script called bugz.txt to ALL commits
> except modules listed at the bottom of rcsinfo. i have this regular
> expression in rcsinfo that I thought tells cvs to apply
> bugz.txt to all
> modules that DO NO contain the string 'test-module' but it doesn't
> work:
>
> ^test-module /home/cvs/2.5/CVSROOT/bugz.txt
>
> what is the correct syntax for "not"? I thought the '^' character was
> proper regexese.