[Kde-scm-interest] Source of "pattern must end in /" rule?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sun Feb 10 2013, Sebastian Dörner <sebastian-AT-sebastian-doerner.de> wrote:

> There used to be the problem that you couldn't match files below a
> recursion (i.e. after a recurse rule has been applied). This has
> however been fixed in 
>
> http://gitorious.org/svn2git/svn2git/commit/
> c59389ceed6214d85011a91263d935f46a501632
>
> so files should work fine. We needed this for the kdesdk conversion,
> which was just finished this weekend. These are the rules:
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/sdk/kde-ruleset/
> repository/revisions/master/entry/kdesdk/dolphin-plugins-rules

Thanks for the info.

It turns out that the svn2git rule DSL is insufficient for Boost's
needs; we'd need thousands (or possibly tens of thousands) of rules to
handle everything we're doing.  Therefore, our fork of the project is
being refactored and updated to handle a new rule DSL:
https://github.com/ryppl/Boost2Git/blob/develop/repositories.txt

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> On 8 February 2013 17:53, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
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>     I
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>     On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Dave Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi Ian,
>     >
>     > Thanks for answering, but I'm afraid I don't understand how
>     your
>     > response addresses my question.  You're showing me a rule that
>     doesn't
>     > end in a slash, that supposedly worked.  Are you saying that
>     the
>     > ends-in-a-slash rule is obsolete?  Or are you saying something
>     else?
>    
>     I actually did check the kdelibs repo and it did bring over
>     history as
>     described in the rule for at least kwebpage.*. So yes, there
>     isn't a
>     end-in-slash-rule, or at least there wasn't in 2011.
>    
>     Ian
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Dave Abrahams