From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:45:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: don't allow globs to match regular files
Message-ID: <7v3b2yjfcw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070418071733.GA10627@muzzle>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> 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?