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Posted to commits@subversion.apache.org by st...@apache.org on 2012/06/28 08:59:39 UTC

svn propchange: r1354666 - svn:log

Author: stsp
Revision: 1354666
Modified property: svn:log

Modified: svn:log at Thu Jun 28 06:59:39 2012
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--- svn:log (original)
+++ svn:log Thu Jun 28 06:59:39 2012
@@ -3,12 +3,9 @@ to entries where the author, log message
 a search pattern. The new --search option works in plain and XML output modes.
 
 Currently, apr_fnmatch() is used for pattern matching, which supports glob
-wildcards only. It would be nice to provide full regex support but I'm not
-quite sure whether we can use apr_strmatch() without breaking compatibility
-with older APR-util versions. So stick with glob patterns for now. Maybe
-we can add full regex support later.
-
-(Note: committing from slow laptop on train -- sorry if this breaks any tests)
+wildcards only. It would be nice to provide full regex support but there
+doesn't seem to be a regex matching API in APR, even though HTTPD has one :(
+So stick with glob patterns for now. Maybe we can add full regex support later.
 
 * subversion/svn/cl.h
   (svn_cl__opt_state_t): Add search_pattern.