/**
 * Tiny glob matcher tailored for path globs:
 *   - `**` → match across path separators (zero or more components)
 *   - `*`  → match within a single component (no separator)
 *   - `?`  → match a single character (no separator)
 *   - any other character is matched literally
 *
 * Patterns must be already tilde-expanded and resolved to absolute paths
 * by the caller via `expandPattern`.
 */
export declare function globToRegExp(pattern: string): RegExp;
/** Expand `~` and `~/...` against the provided home, then resolve to an
 *  absolute path. Returns null when the resulting path escapes `home` (a
 *  pattern like `~/../etc/**` would otherwise allow rules outside the
 *  user's tree). */
export declare function expandPattern(pattern: string, home: string): string | null;