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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: don't allow globs to match regular files
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:45:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3b2yjfcw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070418071733.GA10627@muzzle> (Eric Wong's message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:17:33 -0700")

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> git only tracks the histories of full directories, not
> that of individual files.  Sometimes, SVN users will
> place[1] a regular file in the directory designated
> for subdirectories of branches or tags.
>
> Thanks to jrockway on #git for pointing this out.
>
> [1] mistakenly or otherwise, such as a README

It is not clear what this "glob" means to me.  Enlightenment?

My cursory reading of the code is that you are grabbing things
under branches/ and tags/, expecting each of what you would find
there is the whole-tree of a revision, and do not want to see
any regular file immediately underneath branches/ and tags/.

Is that what is happening here?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-18  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-18  7:17 [PATCH] git-svn: don't allow globs to match regular files Eric Wong
2007-04-18  7:45 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-04-18  7:53   ` Eric Wong

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