From 9b01c9779ef682af0874efc062d9fb2e91676c23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" <smcv@web>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:43:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment: expression anchored too closely?

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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/"
+ nickname="smcv"
+ subject="expression anchored too closely?"
+ date="2010-11-23T10:43:21Z"
+ content="""
+It looks as though you might only be excluding a top-level Makefile, and not a Makefile in subdirectories. Try excluding `(^|/)Makefile$` instead, for instance? (See `wiki_file_prune_regexps` in `IkiWiki.pm` for hints.)
+
+The match operation in `&file_pruned` ends up a bit like this:
+
+    \"foo/Makefile\" =~ m{…|…|…|(^|/)Makefile$}
+"""]]