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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, vleschuk@accesssoftek•com,
	Victor Leschuk <vleschuk@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: shorten glob error message
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 02:54:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160127025408.GA17600@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvb6wjacq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
> I am not sure if it is a good idea to show */*/* as an example in
> the message (that is an anti-example of 'one set of wildcard' by
> having three stars, isn't it?), but that is not a new issue this
> change introduces.

Actually, going back to commit 570d35c26dfbc40757da6032cdc96afb58cc0037
("git-svn: Allow deep branch names by supporting multi-globs"),
having equal '*' on both sides is all that is required.

Not sure how to improve the wording, though...

> >  	my $state = "left";
> > -	my $die_msg = "Only one set of wildcard directories " .
> > -				"(e.g. '*' or '*/*/*') is supported: '$glob'\n";
> > +	my $die_msg = "Only one set of wildcards " .
> > +				"(e.g. '*' or '*/*/*') is supported: $glob\n";
> >  	for my $part (split(m|/|, $glob)) {
> >  		if ($pattern_ok && $part =~ /[{}]/ &&
> >  			 $part !~ /^\{[^{}]+\}/) {

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-27  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-11 14:25 [PATCH] git-svn: loosen config globs limitations Victor Leschuk
2016-01-13  3:16 ` Eric Wong
2016-01-13  6:40   ` Victor Leschuk
2016-01-13 18:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-13 19:26     ` Eric Wong
2016-01-14  4:07   ` [PATCH] git-svn: shorten glob error message Eric Wong
2016-01-14 18:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-22 16:07       ` Victor Leschuk
2016-01-27  2:54       ` Eric Wong [this message]
2016-01-27 20:26         ` Junio C Hamano

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