On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > 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.
Ah yes, indeed. That'll surely be more efficient than downloading all files and filtering client-side. On top of that, the client can use the new-in-1.10 'svn ls -R --search $glob-pattern' to gather the already-filtered list of files (a 1.10 server will perform the filtering of the list of files on the server-side then). This is beginning to sound like low-hanging fruit :-). For the include case at least ... for the exclude case there is no server-optimized ls operation (yet). -- Johan
