Change semantics of tag globs #84
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OK, I solved it: If two lines for the same tag include a large number of files like And they have to, intuitively, because we might add more and more pattern lines overtime. This cannot work, if any of them is over-generic and covers already more than the one we'd like to add. To make the inclusive patterns distinct, it may be necessary to use the glob negation pattern |
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Closing as no need to fix, works as intended, but requires documentation. |
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I just finished the rewrite for the tag globs, but found an issue.
For inclusive globs on the same tag, we have a disjunction of conjunctions (OR of ANDs).
For the exclusive patterns, we rather need a conjunction of disjunctions (AND of ORs).
Reason is, that the disjunction for excluding conjunctions will often exclude nothing, instead of allowing to exclude separate patterns.
Example:
tag1;*;.ext2excludes all *.ext2 files (remaining, e.g., file1.ext1, filenot1.ext3).tag1;*;file*1,.ext3excludes all *.ext3 files that start withfileand end with1.Since both lines keep half of the files, the disjunction of both keep-lists leads to the exclusion of none instead of all.
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