Re: [PATCH 4/4] fast-import: only store commit objects

[Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>]

On 05/06/2013 11:36 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> This would simplify the documentation, and obliterate the need to use
> mark files at all:

As explained in my other email, this documentation change does not
remove all of the reasons that users might want to use mark files.  I
would still like to show users how they can load the files into Git as
two separate steps.

> diff -ur cvs2svn-2.4.0/www/cvs2git.html cvs2svn-2.4.0-mod/www/cvs2git.html
> --- cvs2svn-2.4.0/www/cvs2git.html	2012-09-22 01:49:55.000000000 -0500
> +++ cvs2svn-2.4.0-mod/www/cvs2git.html	2013-05-06 16:33:12.070189985 -0500
> @@ -355,14 +355,13 @@
>        fast-import</tt>:</p>
> 
>  <pre>
> -git fast-import --export-marks=../cvs2svn-tmp/git-marks.dat &lt;
> ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat
> -git fast-import --import-marks=../cvs2svn-tmp/git-marks.dat &lt;
> ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat
> +cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import
>  </pre>
> 
> -    <p>On Linux/Unix this can be shortened to:</p>
> +    <p>On Windows you should use type instead:</p>
> 
>  <pre>
> -cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import
> +type ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import
>  </pre>
> 
>    </li>
> Only in cvs2svn-2.4.0-mod/www: .cvs2git.html.swp
> 
> 

Nevertheless, it *would* be nice to add the Windows equivalent of the
"cat" pipeline.  I knew about the "type" command but I was under the
impression that it is intended for text files and can corrupt binary
files.  Are you sure that using "type" as you suggest is binary-clean?

Michael

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