From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC 06/11 v2] fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:20:06 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8wi7wjex.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1248656659-21415-1-git-send-email-johan@herland.net> <200907280343.56586.johan@herland.net> <7vskgg1bbt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <200907290441.08246.johan@herland.net> <20090729142634.GC1033@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johan Herland , git@vger.kernel.org, barkalow@iabervon.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 29 18:21:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWBuA-0006lh-5u for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755580AbZG2QUa (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:20:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755584AbZG2QU3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:20:29 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:44791 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755574AbZG2QU0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:20:26 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C8C18841; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:20:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5DCCD1883E; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:20:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20090729142634.GC1033@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Wed\, 29 Jul 2009 07\:26\:34 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B78C9D16-7C5B-11DE-A2D9-F699A5B33865-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: >> > We recently hit a similar unintended limitation that we regret in the >> > fast-import language, didn't we? >> >> I don't know. Must have slipped past my mailbox. > > I remember something being raised, but I can't remember exactly > what it was either. Exporting a tag that points at a non commit was what I had in mind. > tag, there might be arguments for tagging trees, e.g. so you can > export the linux kernel repository with `git fast-export` and reload > it with fast-import. But that's unrelated to this change. > > See above about notes. I think we are in agreement then. Good.