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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] svn-fe: Use the --report-fd feature
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:03:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101012230344.GH15587@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikxsP_DV2Tjwk9vNi1WZFFiFEjQjCjhcbc5FETf@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:50, David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com> wrote:

>> On one hand, this makes the interface much uglier.
>
> Can you quantify this? What does it make uglier, and why?

| -svnadmin dump --incremental REPO | svn-fe [url] | git fast-import
| +mkfifo backchannel &&
| +svnadmin dump --incremental REPO |
| +	svn-fe [url] 3<backchannel |
| +	git fast-import --report-fd=3 3>backchannel

The caller has to take care of backflow of data.  Even if the
"cat" command were never used, at least 3>/dev/null would be
necessary to avoid fast-import waiting forever for the frontend
to read from it.

One way to work around this would be for svn-fe to launch fast-import
itself.  The main downside is that that would require a way to
configure how fast-import is to be launched (for use with other
vcs-fast-import backends and in even stranger scenarios).

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-12 13:50 [PATCH/RFC] Add support for subversion dump format v3 David Barr
2010-10-12 13:50 ` [PATCH 1/7] Teach fast-import to print the id of each imported commit David Barr
2010-10-12 14:42   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-12 18:48     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 18:57       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-12 19:07         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 22:06   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 23:05     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-12 13:50 ` [PATCH 2/7] fast-import: Let importers retrieve the objects being written David Barr
2010-10-12 22:38   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 23:07     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-13  0:07       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-13 13:10         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-12 13:50 ` [PATCH 3/7] fast-import: Allow cat command with empty path David Barr
2010-10-12 22:47   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 13:50 ` [PATCH 4/7] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream David Barr
2010-10-12 22:50   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 13:50 ` [PATCH 5/7] vcs-svn: extend svndump to parse version 3 format David Barr
2010-10-12 22:56   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 13:50 ` [PATCH 6/7] vcs-svn: implement prop-delta handling David Barr
2010-10-12 22:59   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 13:50 ` [PATCH 7/7] svn-fe: Use the --report-fd feature David Barr
2010-10-12 14:55   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-12 23:03     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-12 23:11       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-12 23:36         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 23:59   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-13  2:24 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add support for subversion dump format v3 Jonathan Nieder

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