[Config][Doc] `minimatch` syntax is not fully supported in `include` and `exclude` due to `makePathRegexSafe`

[houkanshan]

Description

• Since fix: use makePathRegexSafe with globSync #2242 , the paths in includes are transformed by makePathRegexSafe, which escapes (){}[\]^$+ characters. This behavior no longer aligns with the documentation:

include and exclude: these patterns specify which files to include or exclude during the extraction process. They are passed to minimatch for pattern matching.
https://lingui.dev/ref/conf#catalogs

I think the fix should be either updating the docs to mention these unsupported characters, or using glob's escape character \ to properly escape the special characters instead.

Verifications

• I've checked the docs and this isn't covered there.
• I've searched existing issues on GitHub.

Reproduction Steps

This config used to work before

{
  sourceLocale: 'en',
  locales: ['en', 'es'],
  catalogs: [
    {
      path: 'i18n/locales/{locale}/messages',
      include: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], // <------------- this
      exclude: ['**/node_modules/**'],
    },
  ],
}

Expected Behavior

Now running lingui extract generates empty catalogs

Catalog statistics for i18n/locales/{locale}/messages:
┌─────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┐
│ Language    │ Total count │ Missing │
├─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┤
│ en (source) │      0      │    -    │
│ es          │      0      │    0    │
└─────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┘

Macro Support

Not using macro

Lingui Version

5.5.1

Babel Version

No response

Framework

No response

[timofei-iatsenko]

I believe #2242 should be reverted. It seems the solution didn't take all context about this configuration parameter into context, and you are right, the author of the fix should just used an escaping sequences by itself.

[bojanbass]

This is quite a major bug in lingui cli. I had to revert it to version 5.3.1 to work correctly.