`got ls` should do substring match if given arg that isn't exact repo name about app-gitgot

[gnustavo]

I have just set up the got command to manage my repositories and one of the first things I missed was a more powerful way to select repositories. Tags are nice, but regexen or even plain glob patterns would be nicer still.

What do you think of consider non-numeric arguments as glob patterns matching repos by name, case insensitivelly? I mean, you could use Text::Glob to build regexes from the arguments and match them against the list of repos.

With your examples this would mean that:

• got ls foo would match nothing
• got ls foo* would match all three

This seems easy and intuitive, keeping it even backwards compatible with the current version, no?

Sometimes glob patterns can be a little constraining. How about treating strings between slashes are proper regexen? Like got ls /baz$/ to match foobaz and foobarabz?

Is it too forced?

[genehack]

My initial reaction is you'd have to quote the repo names to make sure the shell didn't grab the glob (i.e., your example would need to be got ls 'foo*' to be safe).

My subsequent reaction is, I need to think about this more. 8^) Leaving ticket open.