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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] git-hash-object: Add --stdin-paths option
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:11:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071024061123.GA10916@soma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071023061022.GG14735@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> wrote:
> > Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > >Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> wrote:
> > >  
> > >>This allows multiple paths to be specified on stdin.
> > >
> > >git-fast-import wasn't suited to the task?
> > 
> > I actually considered using fast-import for the whole shebang, but 
> > decided that I don't yet understand the workings and structure of 
> > git-svn well enough to make such a big change.
> > 
> > git-svn uses git-hash-object to both determine a file's hash and insert 
> > it into the index in one go -- can fast-import do this? Or will it just 
> > put it in the index and not give you the hash back? The latter was my 
> > impression.
> 
> It doesn't currently give you the hash back.  You can sort of get
> to it by marking the blob then using the 'checkpoint' command to
> dump the marks to a file, which you can read in.  Not good.
> 
> It probably wouldn't be very difficult to give fast-import a way
> to dump marks back on stdout as they are assigned.  So long as the
> frontend either locksteps with fast-import or is willing to monitor
> it with a select/poll type of arrangement and read from stdout as
> soon as its ready.
> 
> Probably a 5 line code change to fast-import.  Like this.  Only Git
> won't recognize that object SHA-1 as its in a packfile that has
> no index.  You'd need to 'checkpoint' to flush the object out, or
> just use all of fast-import for the processing.  So yea, I guess
> I can see now how its not suited to this.

Shawn, thanks for clearing that up.  I was previously considering
fast-import for git-svn, but never had time[1] to really look at it.

I guess Adam is on the right track with his patches.

[1] - Sorry to all on the list, but I've really been slacking on git-svn
      work.  I was going to get some stuff done this weekend but decided
      to attempt to fight my nasty caffeine addiction instead :x

-- 
Eric Wong

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-23  5:46 [PATCH 0/9] Make git-svn fetch ~1.7x faster Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add tests for git cat-file Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46   ` [PATCH 2/9] git-cat-file: Small refactor of cmd_cat_file Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46     ` [PATCH 3/9] git-cat-file: Make option parsing a little more flexible Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46       ` [PATCH 4/9] git-cat-file: Add --stdin option Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46         ` [PATCH 5/9] git-cat-file: Add --separator option Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46           ` [PATCH 6/9] Add tests for git hash-object Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46             ` [PATCH 7/9] git-hash-object: Add --stdin-paths option Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46               ` [PATCH 8/9] Git.pm: Add command_bidi_pipe and command_close_bidi_pipe Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:46                 ` [PATCH 9/9] git-svn: Make fetch ~1.7x faster Adam Roben
2007-10-23  7:01                   ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-24  6:34                   ` Eric Wong
2007-10-24  6:48                     ` Adam Roben
2007-10-23  5:53               ` [PATCH 7/9] git-hash-object: Add --stdin-paths option Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-23  5:57                 ` Adam Roben
2007-10-23  6:10                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-24  6:11                     ` Eric Wong [this message]
2007-10-23  6:59             ` [PATCH 6/9] Add tests for git hash-object Johannes Sixt
2007-10-24  3:43           ` [PATCH 5/9] git-cat-file: Add --separator option Brian Downing
2007-10-24  4:26             ` Adam Roben
2007-10-23  6:59   ` [PATCH 1/9] Add tests for git cat-file Johannes Sixt
2007-10-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 0/9] Make git-svn fetch ~1.7x faster Mike Hommey
2007-10-23  6:13   ` Adam Roben
2007-10-24  0:43   ` Sam Vilain

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