Feature Request: Support for File Exclusion and Dynamic Destination Paths in Dependencies

[wissem01chiha]

Hi @spoorcc thanks a lot for the tool, it's very useful.
I used to have a lot of third‑party dependencies and vendored projects hosted alongside the main projects. When these projects delivered a new release or tag, I wrote some shell and batch scripts:

• update-common.sh,
• update-common.bat,
  along with a shell script in each dependency project:
• update.sh.

The common script loops over subdirectories and runs the local update script, which uses Git or other services to integrate the changes into the main repository tree.

My problem

When I want to fetch a dependency, I want to control what files go where in the main tree.
So I specify the subtree folder path with dynamic variables (to exclude documentation or other unnecessary stuff).

I was thinking about dftech:

• Does it support excluding or including files from the dependency?
• For the destination folder path, does it support dynamic variable resolution?
  (For example, I want to parameterize the destination folder of all vendored projects with a global variable or parameter fed from CMake or external sources.)

#!/bin/bash

set -e

name="doctest"
repository="https://github.com/doctest/doctest"
subtree="$name/src"
version="2.5.2"
tag=""
files=(
    "doctest/doctest.h"
    "doctest/extensions/doctest_mpi.h"
    "doctest/extensions/doctest_util.h"
    "doctest/extensions/mpi_reporter.h"
    "doctest/extensions/mpi_sub_comm.h"
    "doctest/doctest.cpp"
    "doctest/parts/doctest_fwd.h"
    "LICENSE.txt"
    "README.md"
)