[darcs-users] understanding darcs boring regexp's

[Jamie Webb]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:17:24PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Again I have trouble finding how the darcs boring regular expressions works.
> I want all files ending with ".aux" in the directory named "work" only
> from the toplevel working directory be ignored.
...
> All don't work. What's the right way?

^work/[^/]*\.aux$

> BTW, in case any developer reads this: I think this boring stuff should,
> even if it's admittedly  very  boring, be much better documented.

Sorry, but it's /very/ well documented. The manual says it's a regex.
It's up to you to go and learn what a regex is (hint: Google). It
would be absurd for every application which uses them to reproduce
that information.

-- Jamie Webb