Re: [PATCH] fast-import: add ignore non-existent files option.

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> I think selective loosening of consistency check makes sense very much,
>>> but I have been wondering if these should be command line options.
>>>
>>> The only example we saw so far is about output from one exporter.  Perhaps
>>> it should be given to fast-import as initial set of commands ("#pragma"!)
>>> that describes the nature of the input file?
>>
>> Yea, I briefly considered that when I added the timestamp format
>> option.  I didn't bother because it was a single option and I figured
>> most frontends start git-fast-import directly.  But with this being
>> added a "format pragrma header thingy" makes a lot of sense.
>
> Oh, I did not mean to suggest hiding it as a comment to silently allow
> older fast-import slurp such input and produce broken results.
>
> For input that needs such loosened error checking, old fast-import won't
> produce correct results _anyway_, so I would agree that making these
> things into explicit commands to cause older fast-import to error out
> would make a lot more sense.

I like the idea. This way all the information to make it work is
already on the stream.

If the importer doesn't have a certain feature it can fail already at
initialization.

-- 
Felipe Contreras