[cvsnt] Re: Administrative Files Regex - exclude CVSROOT?

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Fri Oct 7 16:45:40 BST 2005


Mike Boone wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am experimenting with a script run by verifymsg. I have it working using
> the DEFAULT parameter. However, I've found when I make a mistake to the
> verifymsg, I can't easily recommit an updated verifymsg file.
> 
> So what I want to have happen is for the verifymsg script to run on all
> repositories/folders except the Administrative Files in CVSROOT. How do I do
> this?
> 
> The documentation is pretty vague on valid regular expressions and syntax
> examples. I tried these to no avail:
> 
> ^!CVSROOT C:\myscript.exe
> ^(?!CVSROOT) C:\myscript.exe
> !CVSROOT C:\myscript.exe
> 
> Any ideas?

I'm no regexp expert, but one example is something like

(?(^=^CVSROOT$)^$|.*)

Alternatively just define something for CVSROOT on the first line that 
does nothing (runs 'exit 0' or something similar), so it catches that case.

Tony



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