git-filter-repo.txt: regexes & globs apply to entire file, not to lines

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
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Elijah Newren 4 years ago
parent 93ee4ae907
commit 9282a33a02

@ -872,9 +872,12 @@ YYYY-MM-DD. In the expressions file, there are a few things to note:
globs (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/fnmatch.html), or regular
expressions (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax).
If none of these are specified, `literal:` is assumed.
* globs and regexes are applied to each line of the file; it is not
possible with --replace-text to match a multi-line string.
* If multiple matches are found on a line, all are replaced.
* If multiple matches are found, all are replaced.
* globs and regexes are applied to the entire file, but without any
special flags turned on. Some folks may be interested in adding `(?m)`
to the regex to turn on MULTILINE mode, so that `^` and `$` match the
beginning and ends of lines rather than the beginning and end of file.
See https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html for details.
See also the `--blob-callback` from <<CALLBACKS>>.

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