[darcs-users] Flagging non-boring file as boring

[Alan Bram]

> I use files beginning with a comma as junk test files.
> My intention with that was to consider all files starting with comma as
> boring. I don't see how this would affect index.html

The entries in the boring file are regular expressions, not shell
globs.  If they were shell globs, then ",*" would be correct.  But as
a regular expression, ",*" matches anything (as I said in my previous
message).  ",*" matches any file name that has zero or more commas,
anywhere in the name.  Obviously, "index.html" has zero or more
commas.

To do what you say you want, you need something like:

    (^|/),



Cheers,
 - arb