[darcs-users] explanation of PATTERN?

[Jamie Webb]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:51:46PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> I'm getting mixed results with this.  Perhaps it's because of the "[...]" square brackets acting as a regex character, 

Yers, that's why.

> but for a specific example, something with the title of "[build] ....", subsequently running darcs unrecord -p 
> "[build]" or "\[build\]" brings up recorded items which don't even have "build" in their description (in addition 

Bear in mind that backslashes will be interpreted by the shell. To send them
through to Darcs you'll either need to use single quotes or double them up.

/J