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Re: globbing/wildcards (Was: Moving root repository)

From: Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk>
Date: 2002-10-17 02:19:31 CEST

Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:

> Do the Subversion commands support globbing/wildcards?

No. On Unix the shell does it; nobody has written any application
code to do it.

> If so, it would really help in working with large
> directories. For example, I would be able to do "svn
> co 'URL/[a-m]*'; svn co 'URL/[n-z]*'".

Hard. I assume you want to get a single working copy that represents
URL, and not just a set of working copies that represent the elements
in URL. So you even if you restrict the elements you still need to
checkout URL itself.

-- 
Philip Martin
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