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From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
To: Matthew Mendell <matthew.mendell@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-p4: planned view wildcard support
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 06:44:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120507104443.GA20372@padd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF0RQx-0M4iUHgGdH=RE_UFmLLZH8uy4kkMW=XspNzGm-vsyEg@mail.gmail.com>

matthew.mendell@gmail.com wrote on Sun, 06 May 2012 16:46 -0700:
> Is there any plan for the git-p4.py script to support the "*" wildcard
> in a p4 client?
> 
> The specific test that exposes this unsupported feature:
> ./t9809-git-p4-client-view.sh
> ...
> ok 4 - unsupported view wildcard *

It hasn't been on anybody's priority list so far that I know, but
this would be not too hard to implement in theory.

The code changes would need to alter just one class.  In
View.Path, functions Path.find_wildcards, match_wildcards and
fill_in_wildcards, if you're interested in giving it a try.

Can you constrain your use of "*" a bit?  What makes these
wildcards difficult is all the edge cases.  For instance, is
there ever more than one "*"?  Is it combined with "..."?  Are
there multiple lines in the client spec with wildcards?  Some
abstracted examples would be interesting.

		-- Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-06 23:46 git-p4: planned view wildcard support Matthew Mendell
2012-05-07 10:44 ` Pete Wyckoff [this message]
2012-05-07 15:19   ` Matthew Mendell
2012-05-07 15:28     ` Pete Wyckoff

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