It's inconvenient that we have to quote glob patterns as 'glob:"*.rs"'. Suppose
filesets are usually specified in shell, it's better to allow unquoted strings
if possible. This change also means we'll probably abandon #2101 "make the
parsing of string arguments stricter."
Note that we can no longer introduce ? operator or [] subscript syntax in
filesets.
Closes#4053
We can add a separate precedence/associativity table, but I think the ordered
list is good enough. Nullary :: and .. have no binding, but inserted after the
infix versions for brevity.
Since fileset/revset/template expressions are specified as command-line
arguments, it's sometimes convenient to use single quotes instead of double
quotes. Various scripting languages parse single-quoted strings in various ways,
but I choose the TOML rule because it's simple and practically useful. TOML is
our config language, so copying the TOML syntax would be less surprising than
borrowing it from another language.
https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/188
While I like strict parsing, it's not uncommon that we have to deal with file
names containing spaces, and doubly-quoted strings such as '"Foo Bar"' look
ugly. So, this patch adds an exception that accepts top-level bare strings.
This parsing rule is specific to command arguments, and won't be enabled when
loading fileset aliases.
Mercurial appears to resolve cwd-relative path first, so "glob:*.c" could be
parsed as "**/*.c" if cwd was literally "**". It wouldn't practically matter,
but isn't correct. Instead, jj's parser first splits glob into literal part
and pattern. That's mainly because we want to parse the user input texts into
type-safe objects, and (RepoPathBuf, glob::Pattern) pairs are the simplest
ones. The current parser can't handle patterns like "foo/*/.." (= "foo" ?),
and errors out. I believe this restriction is acceptable.
Unlike literal paths, the 'glob:' pattern anchors to the whole file path. I
don't think "prefix"-matching glob is useful, and making it the default would
be rather confusing.
If this doesn't work out, maybe we can try one of these:
a. fall back to bare file name if expression doesn't contain any operator-like
characters (e.g. "f(x" is an error, but "f x" can be parsed as bare string)
b. introduce command-line flag to opt in (e.g. -e FILESET)
c. introduce pattern prefix to opt in (e.g. set:FILESET)
Closes#3239, #2915, #2286
