Update transform rule documentation

It's still missing an example that uses rules with ">>" arrows.
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Transformation rules are rules for renaming and excluding files and directories.
They are specified line-by-line in a crawler's `transform` option. When a
crawler needs to apply a rule to a path, it goes through this list top-to-bottom
and choose the first matching rule.
and applies the first matching rule.
To see this process in action, you can use the `--debug-transforms` or flag or
the `--explain` flag.
Each line has the format `SOURCE ARROW TARGET` where `TARGET` is optional.
`SOURCE` is either a normal path without spaces (e. g. `foo/bar`), or a string
literal delimited by `"` or `'` (e. g. `"foo\" bar/baz"`). Python's string
escape syntax is supported. Trailing slashes are ignored. `TARGET` can be
formatted like `SOURCE`, but it can also be a single exclamation mark without
quotes (`!`). `ARROW` is one of `-->`, `-name->`, `-exact->`, `-re->` and
`-name-re->`
Each rule has the format `SOURCE ARROW TARGET` (e. g. `foo/bar --> foo/baz`).
The arrow specifies how the source and target are interpreted. The different
kinds of arrows are documented below.
If a rule's target is `!`, this means that when the rule matches on a path, the
corresponding file or directory is ignored. If a rule's target is missing, the
path is matched but not modified.
`SOURCE` and `TARGET` are either a bunch of characters without spaces (e. g.
`foo/bar`) or string literals (e. g, `"foo/b a r"`). The former syntax has no
concept of escaping characters, so the backslash is just another character. The
string literals however support Python's escape syntax (e. g.
`"foo\\bar\tbaz"`). This also means that in string literals, backslashes must be
escaped.
`TARGET` can additionally be a single exclamation mark `!` (*not* `"!"`). When a
rule with a `!` as target matches a path, the corresponding file or directory is
ignored by the crawler instead of renamed.
`TARGET` can also be omitted entirely. When a rule without target matches a
path, the path is returned unmodified. This is useful to prevent rules further
down from matching instead.
Each arrow's behaviour can be modified slightly by changing the arrow's head
from `>` to `>>`. When a rule with a `>>` arrow head matches a path, it doesn't
return immediately like a normal arrow. Instead, it replaces the current path
with its output and continues on to the next rule. In effect, this means that
multiple rules can be applied sequentially.
### The `-->` arrow
The `-->` arrow is a basic renaming operation. If a path begins with `SOURCE`,
that part of the path is replaced with `TARGET`. This means that the rule
`foo/bar --> baz` would convert `foo/bar` into `baz`, but also `foo/bar/xyz`
into `baz/xyz`. The rule `foo --> !` would ignore a directory named `foo` as
well as all its contents.
The `-->` arrow is a basic renaming operation for files and directories. If a
path matches `SOURCE`, it is renamed to `TARGET`.
Example: `foo/bar --> baz`
- Doesn't match `foo`, `a/foo/bar` or `foo/baz`
- Converts `foo/bar` into `baz`
- Converts `foo/bar/wargl` into `bar/wargl`
Example: `foo/bar --> !`
- Doesn't match `foo`, `a/foo/bar` or `foo/baz`
- Ignores `foo/bar` and any of its children
### The `-name->` arrow
The `-name->` arrow lets you rename files and directories by their name,
regardless of where they appear in the file tree. Because of this, its `SOURCE`
must not contain multiple path segments, only a single name. This restriction
does not apply to its `TARGET`. The `-name->` arrow is not applied recursively
to its own output to prevent infinite loops.
does not apply to its `TARGET`.
For example, the rule `foo -name-> bar/baz` would convert `a/foo` into
`a/bar/baz` and `a/foo/b/c/foo` into `a/bar/baz/b/c/bar/baz`. The rule `foo
-name-> !` would ignore all directories and files named `foo`.
Example: `foo -name-> bar/baz`
- Doesn't match `a/foobar/b` or `x/Foo/y/z`
- Converts `hello/foo` into `hello/bar/baz`
- Converts `foo/world` into `bar/baz/world`
- Converts `a/foo/b/c/foo` into `a/bar/baz/b/c/bar/baz`
Example: `foo -name-> !`
- Doesn't match `a/foobar/b` or `x/Foo/y/z`
- Ignores any path containing a segment `foo`
### The `-exact->` arrow
The `-exact->` arrow requires the path to match `SOURCE` exactly. This means
that the rule `foo/bar -exact-> baz` would still convert `foo/bar` into `baz`,
but `foo/bar/xyz` would be unaffected. Also, `foo -exact-> !` would only ignore
`foo`, but not its contents (if it has any). The examples below show why this is
useful.
The `-exact->` arrow requires the path to match `SOURCE` exactly. The examples
below show why this is useful.
Example: `foo/bar -exact-> baz`
- Doesn't match `foo`, `a/foo/bar` or `foo/baz`
- Converts `foo/bar` into `baz`
- Doesn't match `foo/bar/wargl`
Example: `foo/bar -exact-> !`
- Doesn't match `foo`, `a/foo/bar` or `foo/baz`
- Ignores only `foo/bar`, not its children
### The `-re->` arrow
The `-re->` arrow uses regular expressions. `SOURCE` is a regular expression
that must match the entire path. If this is the case, then the capturing groups
are available in `TARGET` for formatting.
The `-re->` arrow is like the `-->` arrow but with regular expressions. `SOURCE`
is a regular expression and `TARGET` an f-string based template. If a path
matches `SOURCE`, the output path is created using `TARGET` as template.
`SOURCE` is automatically anchored.
`TARGET` uses Python's [format string syntax][3]. The *n*-th capturing group can
be referred to as `{g<n>}` (e. g. `{g3}`). `{g0}` refers to the original path.
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PFERD even allows you to write entire expressions inside the curly braces, for
example `{g2.lower()}` or `{g3.replace(' ', '_')}`.
Example: `f(oo+)/be?ar -re-> B{g1.upper()}H/fear`
- Doesn't match `a/foo/bar`, `foo/abc/bar`, `afoo/bar` or `foo/bars`
- Converts `foo/bar` into `BOOH/fear`
- Converts `fooooo/bear` into `BOOOOOH/fear`
- Converts `foo/bar/baz` into `BOOH/fear/baz`
[3]: <https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-string-syntax> "Format String Syntax"
### The `-name-re->` arrow
The `-name-re>` arrow is like a combination of the `-name->` and `-re->` arrows.
Instead of the `SOURCE` being the name of a directory or file, it's a regex that
is matched against the names of directories and files. `TARGET` works like the
`-re->` arrow's target.
For example, the arrow `(.*)\.jpeg -name-re-> {g1}.jpg` will rename all `.jpeg`
extensions into `.jpg`. The arrow `\..+ -name-re-> !` will ignore all files and
directories starting with `.`.
Example: `(.*)\.jpeg -name-re-> {g1}.jpg`
- Doesn't match `foo/bar.png`, `baz.JPEG` or `hello,jpeg`
- Converts `foo/bar.jpeg` into `foo/bar.jpg`
- Converts `foo.jpeg/bar/baz.jpeg` into `foo.jpg/bar/baz.jpg`
Example: `\..+ -name-re-> !`
- Doesn't match `.`, `test`, `a.b`
- Ignores all files and directories starting with `.`.
### The `-exact-re->` arrow
The `-exact-re>` arrow is like a combination of the `-exact->` and `-re->` arrows.
Example: `f(oo+)/be?ar -exactre-> B{g1.upper()}H/fear`
- Doesn't match `a/foo/bar`, `foo/abc/bar`, `afoo/bar` or `foo/bars`
- Converts `foo/bar` into `BOOH/fear`
- Converts `fooooo/bear` into `BOOOOOH/fear`
- Doesn't match `foo/bar/baz`
### Example: Tutorials
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which directories to crawl. If it was missing when the crawler looks at
`tutorials/`, the third rule would match. This means the crawler would not crawl
the `tutorials/` directory and thus not discover that `tutorials/tut02/`
existed.
exists.
Since the second rule is only relevant for crawling, the `TARGET` is left out.
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Note the escaped backslashes on the `SOURCE` side.
### Example: Crawl a python project
### Example: Crawl a Python project
You are crawling a python project and want to ignore all hidden files (files
You are crawling a Python project and want to ignore all hidden files (files
whose name starts with a `.`), all `__pycache__` directories and all markdown
files (for some weird reason).
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...
```
For this task, the name arrows can be used. They are variants of the normal
arrows that only look at the file name instead of the entire path.
For this task, the name arrows can be used.
```
\..* -name-re-> !