[darcs-devel] [patch2127] append slashes to dirs before matching against boring regexps

[James Cook]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:50:11PM +0000, Ben Franksen wrote:
> 
> Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> added the comment:
> 
> > OK - given that our own boring file broke I'm not sure I agree the impact
> > will be small
> 
> You may be right there. In any case I guess fixing such breakage should
> be simple if you know what to look out for.
> 
> > but I think it's a good change. We should try to remember
> > to telegraph it well with appropriate prominence in the release notes.
> 
> Agreed.

Anecdotally, I have the following line in one of my boring files:

  ^programming/kaggle_sounds/dist-newstyle$

which of course refers to a directory. But I do agree it will be easy
for me to fix, now that I know about it.

-- 
James