From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:38:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-export: deal with tag objects that do not have a tagger
Message-ID: <20081218233843.GA21154@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <7viqphf4ua.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:20:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Such a "faking" can well be done, and should be done, on the consuming end
> of the information.  If you fake using the commit authorship, you would
> never be able to tell from the result which one is faked and which one is
> genuine.
> 
> I think you'd rather want to see "Unspecified Tagger" in the resulting tag
> object (or even better, a tag object without the tagger field created by
> the fast-import process), and leave the interpretation of missing tagger
> information to the consumers.

Aah, I missed that Dscho's patch will not just not die(), but it _will_
output a stream that fast-import will import. So just forget my
complain. :-)

And Dscho, thanks!