hgignore and extensions

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:45:44 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> So I tried the following regexp in .hgignore:
> 
> .*\.[0-9]{8}
> 
> and the files were not ignored. After neverending tries, I went for
> 
> .*[0-9]{8}
> 
> and it worked (btw, using \d instead of [0-9] doesn't work).

Interestingly, .*[.][0-9]{8} works too, so it's \. that isn't properly
recognized. OTOH, the pattern

Makefile(\..*)?

ignores Makefile, Makefile.Debug, Makefile.Release

I'm totally flabbergasted.

FWIW, hg version 0cfc5966b2c2

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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