[PATCH 1 of 2] cat: record the current behavior of wildcard matches in subrepos

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Sun Nov 26 05:26:24 EST 2017


On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 23:37:16 -0500, Matt Harbison wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:35:03 -0500, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
> 
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org>
> > # Date 1511591374 -32400
> > #      Sat Nov 25 15:29:34 2017 +0900
> > # Node ID 38e952030f0c4746257280d47f0f94b6cb9ddb41
> > # Parent  8287df8b7be545fdafa22b771012ac65f6264d12
> > cat: record the current behavior of wildcard matches in subrepos
> >
> > It appears that Mercurial subrepo supports any match patterns.
> >
> > diff --git a/mercurial/help/subrepos.txt b/mercurial/help/subrepos.txt
> > --- a/mercurial/help/subrepos.txt
> > +++ b/mercurial/help/subrepos.txt
> > @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Interaction with Mercurial Commands
> >  :archive: archive does not recurse in subrepositories unless
> >      -S/--subrepos is specified.
> > -:cat: cat currently only handles exact file matches in subrepos.
> > +:cat: cat currently only handles exact file matches in Git subrepos.
> 
> Should this be "cat currently only handles pattern matches in Mercurial  
> subrepos"?  The test above this new inexact match test is for an exact hg  
> match.  Git bails early on m.anypats().

Hmm, how about this?

  Git subrepositories only support exact file matches. Subversion
  subrepositories are currently ignored.

What I wanted to say is Git support is limited.


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