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Re: [Monotone-devel] Suggestion: Use wildcards for specifying collection
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Suggestion: Use wildcards for specifying collections |
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Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:35:11 -0700 |
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:23:35PM +0200, Jon Bright wrote:
> 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.
Can you elaborate on these scp/sftp issues? I'm not quite following
why I should be nervous about letting the other side run regexp
matching on my behalf.
-- Nathaniel
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