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Re: [PATCH] Correct missing SP characters in grammar comment at top of fast-import.c

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Mar 25, 2009, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID
<20090325212633.GB23521@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<1238016133-13509-1-git-send-email-newren@gmail.com>
newren@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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> Some point after discovering this 'bug', I noticed that the documentation
> in Documentation/git-fast-import.txt was accurate, so I added a comment at
> the top of the file pointing people at that document, as I suspect it is
> more likely to be kept up to date.  If my assumption is wrong, or would
> prefer different wording, I'm all ears.

Good catch. The grammar at the top of the file should be more accurate than the documentation you point to. This was just a thinko when I wrote the grammar out in the header.

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> diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
> index beeac0d..db44da3 100644
> --- a/fast-import.c
> +++ b/fast-import.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
>  /*
> +(See Documentation/git-fast-import.txt for maintained documentation.)
>  Format of STDIN stream:
>  
>    stream ::= cmd*;
> @@ -18,8 +19,8 @@ Format of STDIN stream:
>  
>    new_commit ::= 'commit' sp ref_str lf
>      mark?
> -    ('author' sp name '<' email '>' when lf)?
> -    'committer' sp name '<' email '>' when lf
> +    ('author' sp name sp '<' email '>' sp when lf)?
> +    'committer' sp name sp '<' email '>' sp when lf
>      commit_msg
>      ('from' sp (ref_str | hexsha1 | sha1exp_str | idnum) lf)?
>      ('merge' sp (ref_str | hexsha1 | sha1exp_str | idnum) lf)*
> @@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ Format of STDIN stream:
>  
>    new_tag ::= 'tag' sp tag_str lf
>      'from' sp (ref_str | hexsha1 | sha1exp_str | idnum) lf
> -    ('tagger' sp name '<' email '>' when lf)?
> +    ('tagger' sp name sp '<' email '>' sp when lf)?
>      tag_msg;
>    tag_msg ::= data;
>  
> -- 
> 1.6.0.6
> 
-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Correct missing SP characters in grammar comment at top of fast-import.cnewren@gmail.com, Mar 25, 2009
  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 25, 2009

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