hg convert using regexp in the filemap

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Uwe,

On Saturday, 2022-02-26 20:34:31 +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> >>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> 
> > I would like to extract a subdirectory from my main repository. That
> > subdirectory contains another subdirectory, that contains images, jpg
> > and png
> 
> > So https://heavymetaldev.com/hg-repo-conversion
> 
> > I tried 
> > include r:regex/Folien/teil3/images/*
> > include r:regex/Folien/teil3/images2/*
> > include r:regex/Folien/teil3/images3/*
> > include Folien/teil3/master-iq.tex
> 
> 
> It seems that 
> 
> Include "Folien/teil3/images"
> 
> Does the trick, strange.

It's not strange at all.

According to "hg help -v convert" the "include" directive in the filemap
file neither understands regular expressions  nor Shell meta characters.
And according to the URL you gave the "r:" prefix (NOT "r:regex"!) is an
extension turned  into ordinary  "include" directives  by the PowerShell
scripts provided,  which create the  filemap file  to be finally used by
"hg convert --filemap ...".

However,  this is a nice labour saving syntax extension which could per-
haps make it into the "convert" code ... hint, hint! :-)

Sincerely,
  Rainer