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[PATCH] fast-import: support the ls command anywhere comments are accepted

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 25, 2014, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID
<1416954339-9304-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

The git-fast-import manual page says about both cat-blob and ls that they can be used "anywhere in the stream that comments are accepted", but in practice it turns out it was only true for cat-blob. This change makes fast-import behavior match its documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
---
 fast-import.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

The downside of this change is that if a script relies on the fixed behavior, it won't work with older versions of git. I'm not sure it is better than fixing the documentation to match the unfortunate current limitation?

diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index d0bd285..7fd59ef 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -1910,6 +1910,10 @@ static int read_next_command(void)
 			parse_cat_blob(p);
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (skip_prefix(command_buf.buf, "ls ", &p)) {
+			parse_ls(p, NULL);
+			continue;
+		}
 		if (command_buf.buf[0] == '#')
 			continue;
 		return 0;
-- 
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