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Document rationale behind types of transitions #2

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So, to my understanding, transitions are classified into:

  • '', an epsilon transition
  • 'a' or any other single character is a literal
  • '.*' represents a glob * or a wildcard ?
  • '**' is a globstar ** not covered by the following cases
  • '**/' represents a **/ (except at the end)
  • '**/*' represents the string **/*

The last two feel pretty ad-hoc. Do you recall why these special cases exist, and if so, could this be documented in the code? My best guesses so far are:

  • I think **/ is necessary because **/a should be able to match "a", but if we represented it as ['**', 'a'] then toGlob would produce the ugly "**a".
  • I think **/* only exists for better capture semantics, as otherwise the "**/" could greedily match characters after the final slash that ought to belong to the *.

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