Re: [fossil-users] Commit File Subset Shorthand

2013-12-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2013-11-29 20:15, Matt Welland wrote: Windows cmd.exe leaves wildcard expansion to the application, a choice that seems really moronic to me but perhaps there was a good reason for it. It makes sense, but only in the context of another choice. Going back to MS-DOS days, and into the early

Re: [fossil-users] Commit File Subset Shorthand

2013-11-30 Thread Noam Postavsky
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Matt Welland wrote: > Windows cmd.exe leaves wildcard expansion to the application, The C runtime that fossil is built with does wildcard expansion, although it doesn't work quite the same as most unix shells. ___ fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Commit File Subset Shorthand

2013-11-29 Thread Ory Drilon
> So sometimes fossil does the expanding and sometimes it doesn't? Curious. I > haven't done much on Windows in quite some time and I don't have a Windows > machine handy to try it out on. Perhaps I was remembering use of cygwin. > > Either way if it is inconsistent then I suppose that may be somet

Re: [fossil-users] Commit File Subset Shorthand

2013-11-29 Thread Matt Welland
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Ory Drilon wrote: > > I'm going to hazard a guess that you are on windows? I speculate that > one of > > the shells listed here > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windowsmight > > expand the wildcard before handing the list to fossil.

Re: [fossil-users] Commit File Subset Shorthand

2013-11-29 Thread Ory Drilon
> I'm going to hazard a guess that you are on windows? I speculate that one of > the shells listed here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows might > expand the wildcard before handing the list to fossil. > > Windows cmd.exe leaves wildcard expansion to the applicati

Re: [fossil-users] Commit File Subset Shorthand

2013-11-29 Thread Matt Welland
I'm going to hazard a guess that you are on windows? I speculate that one of the shells listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows might expand the wildcard before handing the list to fossil. Windows cmd.exe leaves wildcard expansion to the application, a choic

[fossil-users] Commit File Subset Shorthand

2013-11-29 Thread Ory Drilon
I find myself having to commit only subsets of changes, but having to type in the full path for each file in the subset is a pain. I've tried wildcarding, but fossil doesn't recognize the asterisks. Is there some shorthand I can use to refer to the files in a subset? ___