Why does "view" not allow wildcards?

[Ben Finney]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu at gmail.com> writes:

> Before filling a bugreport for a wishlist item, I wanted to ask
> whether this was discussed and rejected during the filtered views
> development.

I don't know about that so I won't speak to what considerations may
already have been made for what you describe.

> Why does view only allows to set files (or directories), and not
> wildcards? It could certainly be useful, for example in Emacs I would
> likely have a view
>
>   bzr view --name changelogs ChangeLog*
>
> There are 59 ChangeLog.* files in the Emacs tree, too many to add
> manually

You can use the existing tools to gather those filenames for you::

    $ bzr view --name changelogs $(find . -name 'ChangeLog*')

If you don't want to rely on the current working tree, you might instead
find it useful to process the output of ‘bzr inventory’::

    $ bzr view --name changelogs $(bzr inventory | grep 'ChangeLog')

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Ben Finney