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Re: [RFC 06/11 v2] fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Jul 30, 2009, 00:29 UTC
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On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> >> > We recently hit a similar unintended limitation that we regret in
> >> > the fast-import language, didn't we?
> >>
> >> I don't know. Must have slipped past my mailbox.
> >
> > I remember something being raised, but I can't remember exactly
> > what it was either.
>
> Exporting a tag that points at a non commit was what I had in mind.
>
> > tag, there might be arguments for tagging trees, e.g. so you can
> > export the linux kernel repository with `git fast-export` and reload
> > it with fast-import.  But that's unrelated to this change.
> >
> > See above about notes.
>
> I think we are in agreement then.  Good.

We do? on what? That 'notemodify' should work on <committish> + <tag object>? Or that 'notemodify' should work on <any object>?

...Johan
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Message 20 of 30 in “[RFC 00/11] Foreign VCS helper program for CVS repositories”
  1. Johan HerlandJul 27, 2009
  2. 01/11 Add specification of git-vcs-* helper programsJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  3. 02/11 Use a function to determine whether a remote is validJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  4. 03/11 Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urlsJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2009
  6. Daniel BarkalowJul 27, 2009
  7. Alex RiesenJul 29, 2009
  8. Johan HerlandJul 30, 2009
  9. 04/11 Add a transport implementation using git-vcs-* helpersJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  10. 05/11 Refactor path name parsing into new function: get_path_str()Johan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  11. 06/11 Add support for mark references as path namesJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  12. Shawn O. PearceJul 27, 2009
  13. Johan HerlandJul 27, 2009
  14. Shawn O. PearceJul 27, 2009
  15. 06/11 fast-import: Add support for importing commit notesJohan Herland, Jul 28, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2009
  17. Johan HerlandJul 29, 2009
  18. Shawn O. PearceJul 29, 2009
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2009
  20. Johan HerlandJul 30, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2009
  23. Johan HerlandJul 29, 2009
  24. 07/11 Preliminary clarifications to git-vcs documentationJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  25. 08/11 Teach foreign transport code to perform the "capabilities" commandJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  26. 09/11 Introduce a 'marks <filename>' feature to the foreign transport codeJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  27. 11/11 Add simple test cases of git-vcs-cvs functionalityJohan Herland, Jul 27, 2009
  28. Daniel BarkalowJul 27, 2009
  29. Johan HerlandJul 27, 2009
  30. Daniel BarkalowJul 27, 2009

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