svn commit: r1783741 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/svndumpfilter/svndumpfilter.c

[ju...@apache.org]

Author: julianfoad
Date: Mon Feb 20 11:13:58 2017
New Revision: 1783741

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1783741&view=rev
Log:
Document briefly the glob syntax for 'svndumpfilter exclude --pattern'
and 'svndumpfilter include --pattern'.

* subversion/svndumpfilter/svndumpfilter.c
  (options_table): Expand the help for '--pattern'.

Modified:
    subversion/trunk/subversion/svndumpfilter/svndumpfilter.c

Modified: subversion/trunk/subversion/svndumpfilter/svndumpfilter.c
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/svndumpfilter/svndumpfilter.c?rev=1783741&r1=1783740&r2=1783741&view=diff
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--- subversion/trunk/subversion/svndumpfilter/svndumpfilter.c (original)
+++ subversion/trunk/subversion/svndumpfilter/svndumpfilter.c Mon Feb 20 11:13:58 2017
@@ -950,7 +950,10 @@ static const apr_getopt_option_t options
     {"quiet",              svndumpfilter__quiet, 0,
      N_("Do not display filtering statistics.") },
     {"pattern",            svndumpfilter__glob, 0,
-     N_("Treat the path prefixes as file glob patterns.") },
+     N_("Treat the path prefixes as file glob patterns.\n"
+        "                             Glob special characters are '*' '?' '[]' and '\\'.\n"
+        "                             Character '/' is not treated specially, so\n"
+        "                             pattern /*/foo matches paths /a/foo and /a/b/foo.") },
     {"drop-empty-revs",    svndumpfilter__drop_empty_revs, 0,
      N_("Remove revisions emptied by filtering.")},
     {"drop-all-empty-revs",    svndumpfilter__drop_all_empty_revs, 0,