RE: Trouble excluding a tag using an options file

Hi There Michael,

Thanks for the advice, you are quite right I typed out the line
incorrectly, it is:

ExcludeRegexpStrategyRule(r'GMWin-dvi-issue-1813*'),

Thank you for clearing up the information regarding regular expressions,
I tried modifying the line to

ExcludeRegexpStrategyRule(r'GMWin-dvi-issue-1813'),

and

ExcludeRegexpStrategyRule(r'tags/GMWin-dvi-issue-1813'),

But cvs2svn is still trying not excluding the tag.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Haggerty [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, 20 September 2010 2:26 PM
To: Peter Shipway
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Trouble excluding a tag using an options file

On 09/20/2010 02:47 AM, Peter Shipway wrote:
> I am trying to exclude a tag using an options file, but I can't seem
to
> get the correct syntax.
> 
> On pass 16 the cvs2svn outputs the following error:
>                 starting subversion r127 / 36451
>                 ERROR: Unable to convert a path
'tags/GMWin-dvi-issue-1813'
> 
> I've added the following entry to the options file but it still tries
to
> convert this tag
>     ExcludeRegexpStrategyRule(r'GMWin-dvi-issue-1831*'),

Well, right off the bat I see two problems:

* The patterns needed for ExcludeRegexpStrategyRule() are *regexps* aka
regular expressions.  To match any string in a regexp, you need to use
".*", not "*".  So your pattern will match 'GMWin-dvi-issue-18311111111'
but not 'GMWin-dvi-issue-1831-foo-bar'.  This is not necessarily a
problem in this particular case but you might have made similar mistakes
elsewhere.

* You've transposed the last two digits: '13' vs '31'.

Michael

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