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Added a comment: expression anchored too closely?<br />


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+ username=&quot;http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/&quot;
+ nickname=&quot;smcv&quot;
+ subject=&quot;expression anchored too closely?&quot;
+ date=&quot;2010-11-23T10:43:08Z&quot;
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+It looks as though you might only be excluding a top-level Makefile, and not a Makefile in subdirectories. Try excluding `(^|/)Makefile$` instead, for instance? (See `wiki_file_prune_regexps` in `IkiWiki.pm` for hints.)
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+The match operation in `&amp;file_pruned` ends up a bit like this:
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+    \&quot;foo/Makefile\&quot; =~ m{&hellip;||&hellip;|(^|/)Makefile$}
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