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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Introduce the git fast-import-helper
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:31:44 -0500
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Tomas Carnecky wrote:

>  fast-import-helper.c | 2201 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Aaa!  Could someone send a diff of this against the usual fast-import.c?

I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear I am not optimistic about the
long-term maintainability of two separate fast-import implementations.
If we get usability improvements by patching the existing fast-import,
that would be much better.