Which path to a file does gulp-rev-all match regexes against?

[shark-horse]

Rather, given a file, what does gulp-rev-all think the path is?

gulp.src('.work/**/*', {base: '.work'})
  .pipe(revAll.revision({
    // works as expected:
    dontRenameFile: ['index.html', /favicon\.png/],
    // fails to make changes to index.html or app/main.js:
    dontSearchFile: [ /^(?!(index\.html|app\/main\.js)).*$/ ],
    dontUpdateReference: [ /^(?!(index\.html|app\/main\.js)).*$/ ]
  })
  .pipe(gulp.dest(...))
  ...

So a few more specific questions:

1. When I pass in a string instead of a regex, how is that interpreted? The README shows an example of just providing .html to match all HTML files, and also I tried using glob syntax with a ** which gave me an error about an invalid regex. Is it some sort of "smart" matcher? Does index.html match path/to/index.html.bak?
2. Does gulp-rev-all respect the base? I.e., does it see a file index.html or a file .work/index.?
3. To prevent creating an additional problem, is there any option to pass e.g. a function or a gulp-filter instead of using a blasted regex? Or is there any sort of DoSearchFile or DoRenameFile option so I don't have to use complicated inverted regexes?

The reason I don't want to automagical renames on all our javascript files is that we have path configs in our RequireJS config, e.g.:

paths: {
  jquery: "lib/jquery.min"
  coolWidget: "app/ui/widgets/text/awesomeKind/coolWidget"
}

with a few hundred entries or so, and each .js file in our code references its dependencies:

define(['jquery', 'coolWidget'], function(jquery, coolWidget) {...});

(For now, let's focus on .js files. I know I will have to update references in .css and other file types later.)