Re: [WIP PATCH] Add 'git fast-export', the sister of 'git fast-import'

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 23, 2007, 20:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20071123205652.GA14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711231428350.27959@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> > I have a suggestion though. git-fast-export and git-fast-import should 
> > support bundle.
> 
> I think this is not what fast-export and fast-import are about.  They use 
> an easy to generate, and easy to edit, format.
> 
> Bundles are optimised transport mechanisms for sneaker net.  They are not 
> to be meant to be easy to edit, but as small as possible.

Actually I wonder, what about bundles that are formatted as a git-fast-import data stream? Then you can have a human readable bundle format that can be (reasonably) easily turned back into a packfile and loaded into the local ODB.

Only we'd probably want to express blobs as diffs if we can, to save disk space, which means we'd need to have git-apply organized in a way that we can call it from within fast-import. :-)

But I agree with Dscho's basic comment; fast-import should not be reading a bundle. It doesn't want to. That's what git-bundle is for.

-- 
Shawn.