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Re: Feature Req: sorthand urls for branches/tags in CLI

From: Kishalmi László <lkishalmi_at_ovi.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:51:43 +0200

On 08/28/2013 05:51 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote on Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 16:07:17 -0500:
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi <lkishalmi_at_ovi.com> wrote:
>>> I'd propose a -b [--branch] option or extend the meaning of "^" sign for
>>> those commands which can work with URL-s. Extending ˇ would mean
>>> that when used as ^/ it means repository root and using it as ^[branch] then
>>> it would refer to a branch.
>>>
>>> How would it work:
>>>
>>> Let's imagine the following repository layout:
>>> /project1/trunk
>>> /project1/trunk/dir1/dir2/dir3/fileA
>>> /project1/branches/branchA
>>> /project1/branches/branchA/dir1/dir2/dir3/fileA
>>> /project1/branches/branchB
>>> /project1/branches/branchB/dir1/dir2/dir3/fileA
>>> /project1/tags/tag1
>>> /project1/tags/tag2
>> So how do you see this working where your branches have their own sub-levels:
>> /project1/branches/release/branchA
>> /project1/branches/qa/branchA
>> /project1/branches/dev/branchA
>>
>> Who gets to use the shorthand?
> ^/project1/branches/(qa|dev|release)
> would be shortened to
> ^qa/ ^dev/ ^release/.
>
> (Or you could try to define something along the lines of
> '^/.../branches/(qa|dev|release)/([^/+]) \1-\2', but I'm not sure of the
> details right now)
>
Well in that case a meaningful shorthand would be to use ^qa/branchA,
^dev/branchA and ^release/branchA
I think it could be solved by any matcher either using prefix or rexexp,
or some simplified regexp one.
Received on 2013-08-28 13:52:41 CEST

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