Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:22 +0000: > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:53 +0200: > > I do think it would be a great feature though, to have --include and > > --exclude options (with glob-like syntax, like our recent --search > > option for 'svn ls') for certain svn commands. With server-side > > support to only send the matching items (and falling back to pure > > client-side filtering when talking to older servers). Then one could > > do these as an efficient operation (if there is server-side support): > > > > Even without any new server-side support, if the client can be assumed > to have `svn ls -R` output, then it can simply drive the reporter in the > right way for the server to return exactly the right data. >
The "reporter" is the server-side interface that answers 'svn update' requests. > > * svn cat -R --include '*.txt' $URL > > * svn export --include 'build.xml' $URL (<- creating sparse directory > > structure with only the matching files) > > * svn export --exclude '*.iso' $URL > > This reminds me of the new authz-with-globs feature...