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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, scott@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-export: deal with tag objects that do not have a tagger
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:38:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081218233843.GA21154@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7viqphf4ua.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:20:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Such a "faking" can well be done, and should be done, on the consuming end
> of the information.  If you fake using the commit authorship, you would
> never be able to tell from the result which one is faked and which one is
> genuine.
> 
> I think you'd rather want to see "Unspecified Tagger" in the resulting tag
> object (or even better, a tag object without the tagger field created by
> the fast-import process), and leave the interpretation of missing tagger
> information to the consumers.

Aah, I missed that Dscho's patch will not just not die(), but it _will_
output a stream that fast-import will import. So just forget my
complain. :-)

And Dscho, thanks!

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 16:46 git-fast-export and tags without a tagger Miklos Vajna
2008-12-18 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-18 19:45   ` [PATCH] fast-export: deal with tag objects that do not have " Johannes Schindelin
2008-12-18 21:34     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-18 23:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-18 23:38         ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2008-12-20  0:00         ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-12-20  0:33           ` [PATCH] fast-import: make tagger information optional Junio C Hamano
2008-12-20  0:59             ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-20  0:59             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-12-18 21:36   ` git-fast-export and tags without a tagger Miklos Vajna

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