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

--- Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
> You said "large directories", I assumed you were
> trying to work around
> a problem checking out such a directory.

Yes, I was thinking that globbing support would help
in that endeavor as well as being a good feature in
itself.

> > Similarly:
> > svn co 'file:///project/trunk/[a-m]*'
> >
> > would checkout the elements.
>
> Is it common to want to do this?

I can't claim that it's common. OTOH, like I said, it
would be one way to workaround the large directory
timeout problem.

> On Unix: svn ls | grep | xargs -n1 -i svn co URL/{}
>
> All the usual disclaimers about spaces and/or quotes
> in the element
> names apply, you get to shoot yourself.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Do you think a globbing feature would be
good/bad/neutral?

Come to think of it, and this may be a blue sky idea,
if the repo were mountable as a read-only file system,
the globbing will automatically come from the shell.
I know it's possible to map the repo as a web folder
in Windows. Has anyone been able to mount it as a
drive? Or even thought of this?

Thanks,
Noel

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Received on Thu Oct 17 14:36:03 2002