Why does "view" not allow wildcards?

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 01:07, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:

> The general idea of having a view defined by a wildcard seems to make
> sense and you're welcome to add a bug asking for it.  It's probably
> feasible.

OK.

> However in the specific example you give, at least on unix, the glob
> is going to be expanded by the shell, so Bazaar won't know you didn't
> manually specify all those names.

I suppose wildcards should/could be quoted.

One thing that was mentioned in some design document is to assign
filenames to view through a file, something like  "bzr view
--name=myname --filter=myfilters.txt" (I don't remember the exact
syntax). That'd be useful, too.

    Juanma