From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dana How" Subject: Re: git-p4import.py robustness changes Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:09:12 -0700 Message-ID: <56b7f5510706032309w4aee791dnd3bf5d46974bdaba@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ACE2ABC-8D73-4097-87AC-F3B27EDA97DE@slamb.org> <0EDF1E14-3682-4B1E-A7D2-F82388F752AA@slamb.org> <7vzm3inisa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200706031511.31157.simon@lst.de> <839AEF71-ED29-4A79-BE97-C79EAFEDC466@slamb.org> <20070604055433.GD4507@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Scott Lamb" , "Simon Hausmann" , "Junio C Hamano" , git@vger.kernel.org, danahow@gmail.com To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 04 08:09:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hv5kl-0001TR-Sj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:09:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751998AbXFDGJP (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 02:09:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752002AbXFDGJP (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 02:09:15 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:42031 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751998AbXFDGJO (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 02:09:14 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so664293ugf for ; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:09:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MC5ZzANH/Z420Z3uJeLdtyGlJ2N1GVPewvhHYoCOWucq7S6Fc5BWx8xy06zTs280EKUnEFzGNdvQIwPdWd4oztdWD6y0rdaC483iYedmRv/KFRpRa7f2oyK9kpu6JxTKyg7WLuqNDZfS15kRmUCq8vHwv+ZiIWgWZPL254DATxA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=utHQfwC0Hr/vuXEMuv+D3pLA1hEK08jJQtFOkh/T5LNErH0VBBLsZOZXJSvGC/VgaPZPeR/L4u9g4TkKxvuN+ROJFDkVlIDGrfIBhras3zWJNjREfr0Sy7/FK/HHe/dV1F1jL9JlsC0WKYWvX3aQMbYAh2RHRPLS3t8HRjy9aas= Received: by 10.78.131.8 with SMTP id e8mr1866116hud.1180937352887; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.90.18 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:09:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070604055433.GD4507@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/3/07, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > I think writing data to fast-import is much easier than running > the raw Git commands, especially when you are talking about an > import engine where you need to set all of the special environment > variables for git-commit-tree or git-tag to do its job properly. > Its a good tool that simply doesn't get enough use, partly because > nobody is using it... Well, perhaps they use it *once*, in that they write a wrapper script for it and then forget about it. At least that's what I did. And the _only_ annoyance was the trailing NL requirement on the delimited "data" statement, so you don't get much noise/complaints when people use it. Thanks, -- Dana L. How danahow@gmail.com +1 650 804 5991 cell