Re: [PATCH] fast-import: fix ls command with empty path

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>>> [Subject: fast-import: fix ls command with empty path]
>>
>> I would s/fix/accept/ to be more precise about the nature of the
>> breakage.  (In other words: rather than mishandling ls with an empty
>> path, fast-import was not handling it at all.)
[...]
> So what do you guys want to do with topic?  My gut feeling is that
> this is not a new regression and can wait until the next cycle.

Thanks again for the advice so far.

After sleeping on it, here are two patches for 'maint'.  One plugs a
memory leak.  The other makes my above comment actually true, so
trying to use this missing feature results in an error message that
can help the frontend author instead of the silently broken conversion
Andrew found.

Then we can carefully add 'ls ""' support in 1.7.11.

svn-fe should probably also be tweaked to handle this case without
demanding support for the (nice) 'ls empty path' extension in
fast-import backends, and this could even happen before 1.7.10.
I can't promise to get to that quickly enough, though.

Sensible?

Jonathan