Re: [Monotone-devel] Suggestion: Use wildcards for specifying collections

[Jon Bright]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> I think if we did that it would be as a UI trick only, and convert to
> some preferred form internally.  Netsync itself should only support
> one (and I guess if we wanted to support regexes at all, that one had
> better be regex, since they're way more expressive than globs...)

Assuming netsync should support either, that sounds right.  But should 
netsync support either?  Do I trust the remote host enough to do the 
regexp expansion for me, or would it be better that the remote host 
tells me what I can get, branch-wise, I do my own regexping to work out 
what I want, and ask for that?  It's a minor point, but I remember 
similar questions coming up with regard to scp/sftp.

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