Re: Svndumpfilter

"C. Michael Pilato" <[email protected]> writes:

> "Jesper Carlsson" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hi! From svndumpfilter help exclude: “Filter out nodes with given
> > prefixes from dumpstream.” I’ve also reed the manual. Is it
> > really just possible to filter with prefixes? I would like to use
> > the svndumpfilter to filter files like *.ext. Is this possible?
> 
> No.  When we say "with given prefixes", we actually mean it.
> 
> > If not, could I use any filter to remove a specific file? Please
> > give some examples!  I would appreciate help very much, thanks!
> 
> Actually, I imagine it would be pretty trivial to teach svndumpfilter
> to filter based not on prefixes, but on file patterns.  Are you up for
> a coding task?  Basically s/prefix/pattern/ through the entirety of
> svndumpfilter/main.c, and then replace 'ary_pattern_match' (which was
> 'ary_prefix_match' :-) with svn_cstring_match_glob_list().
> 
> (cross-posting to dev@ in case someone there wants to take on this
> bite-sized task)

Ooh, though perhaps only the 'exclude' subcommand should allow this,
since you would get almost guaranteed bustedness if you use anything
other than a prefix with the 'include' subcommand.  For example, the
command 'svndumpfilter include *.doc' will keep Word files, but not
the parent directories which hold them. :-)