Re: [PATCH 2/4] fast-import: define a new option command

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > +Note that options specified by the frontend override any options the
> > > +user may specify to git fast-import itself.
> > 
> > Hmmph.  Do we really want that?  I would think the command line options 
> > should override the stream, such that we can then do something like:
> > 
> >   hg fast-export >foo
> >   git fast-import --export-marks=mymarks <foo
> > 
> > even though 'option export-marks=bar' appears in foo.
> 
> I guess the reason is that this is harder to implement.  The problem is 
> that you _have_ to parse the command line options first.  So you need to 
> record with every option you set that it has been set by the command line, 
> and must not be overridden by the in-stream options.

It might be easy enough to just save the argv into a global, and
reparse the argv immediately before the first non-option command.

> OTOH,
> 
> 	hg fast-export |
> 	sed '1,/^blob/s/^option export-marks=.*$//' > foo
> 
> is relatively easy.

Just for the archives, but that sed expression won't catch inline
data under a file command.  Its legal for a stream to not use the
blob command at all.  I guess it would need to be:

 	hg fast-export |
 	sed '1,/^(blob|commit)/s/^option export-marks=.*$//' > foo

-- 
Shawn.