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| author | Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> | 2018-12-11 13:44:02 +1100 |
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| committer | Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org> | 2018-12-11 13:44:02 +1100 |
| commit | 28ae6432670ca0aadecbf2114cd828f793537713 (patch) | |
| tree | 19caa17f3687b455b7bf99c4181d5ae2d7edd8d4 | |
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* doc/dejagnu.texi (getdirs procedure): Document hard-coded
directory exclusions by name in this procedure.
Signed-off-by: Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dejagnu.texi | 13 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2018-12-11 Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> + + * doc/dejagnu.texi (getdirs procedure): Document hard-coded + directory exclusions by name in this procedure. + 2018-12-10 Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org> * doc/dejagnu.texi (getdirs procedure): This procedure accepts Tcl diff --git a/doc/dejagnu.texi b/doc/dejagnu.texi index b0392ff..b5dbc0a 100644 --- a/doc/dejagnu.texi +++ b/doc/dejagnu.texi @@ -4793,6 +4793,15 @@ Returns a list of all the subdirectories in a single directory that match a glob pattern. If no directories match the pattern, then an empty list is returned. +This procedure is specialized as a search for tests in +testsuites: @code{getdirs} ignores directories named +@samp{testsuite}, @samp{config}, or @samp{lib}, and also ignores +directories associated with a few revision control systems, +specifically Git (@samp{.git}), Subversion (@samp{.svn}), CVS +(@samp{CVS}), RCS (@samp{RCS}), and SCCS (@samp{SCCS}). These ignored +directories will not appear in the returned list, nor will they be +examined in a recursive search. + @quotation @t{@b{getdirs} @i{-all} @i{rootdir} @i{pattern}} @end quotation @@ -5589,5 +5598,5 @@ This makes @code{runtest} exit. Abbreviation: @kbd{q}. @bye -@c LocalWords: subdirectory prepend prepended testsuite filename Expect's -@c LocalWords: DejaGnu +@c LocalWords: subdirectory prepend prepended testsuite filename Expect's svn +@c LocalWords: DejaGnu CVS RCS SCCS |