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Re: [PATCH] git-svn: don't allow globs to match regular files

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 18, 2007, 07:45 UTC
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Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
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> git only tracks the histories of full directories, not
> that of individual files.  Sometimes, SVN users will
> place[1] a regular file in the directory designated
> for subdirectories of branches or tags.
>
> Thanks to jrockway on #git for pointing this out.
>
> [1] mistakenly or otherwise, such as a README
It is not clear what this "glob" means to me.  Enlightenment?

My cursory reading of the code is that you are grabbing things under branches/ and tags/, expecting each of what you would find there is the whole-tree of a revision, and do not want to see any regular file immediately underneath branches/ and tags/.

Is that what is happening here?
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