[Tickets #8760] Re: Process subdirectories correctly and handle .files appropriately

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8760
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  Ticket             | 8760
  Updated By         | ttsts at web.de
  Summary            | Process subdirectories correctly and handle .files
                     | appropriately
  Queue              | Ansel
  Version            | 1.1
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Resolved
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Michael Rubinsky
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ttsts at web.de (2010-05-18 16:33) wrote:

> The attached diff patches a failing in the current  
> /ansel/scripts/recursive_import.php where if you specify a  
> subdirectory, it won't process the directory correctly. This is due  
> to slightly faulty logic in the code where it manually traverses the  
> tree, rather than searching the tree relatively. Without  
> re-engineering the import process, I have created this slightly  
> cludgy patch which will only work on *nix based systems.
http://www.badds.de
>
> This looks for a / at the start of the path, and if that doesn't  
> exist, do a `pwd` and add that to the beginning of the path. There's  
> probably a much more efficient way of doing this, but off-hand I  
> couldn't think of it.
>
> There's also included in this diff (which again, only works on *nix  
> file systems) which looks for hidden dotfiles and  discards them.  
> This is particularly useful if you moving your photos from a  
> Subversion repository into ansel. Sadly, this part will currently  
> *always* discard dotfiles because I can't work out how to make the  
> option-matching code accept -s or --secret as options, like -k or  
> --keep currently does.