amoffat/supertag

Unsure how to import a large number of files

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#7 opened on Dec 3, 2020

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The documentation -- which is great btw -- doesn't seem to address how to import a large number of files into a Supertag collection, and I couldn't find any script of program in the repo tree that would help.

Do you have any best practices to share ? Could we imagine a helper tool for this ? I guess what I'm thinking of, is a program (or a subcommand) that would take as arguments:

  • a name of a Supertag collection, or a mount point;
  • a <path> to the directory to import
  • a tag name that would be affected to all imported files (e.g. inbox)
  • an optional number of path components to strip (e.g. --strip-components=2)

and that would

  • find all files from <path> (possibly ignoring .git dirs using the ignore crate)
  • treat all path components as tags (excluding the leading components if necessary)
  • add the files to the Supertag collection, tagging them with the tags corresponding to the path components, plus the tag given as a parameter (e.g.inbox).

What do you think ?

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