Re: [PATCH 6/3] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2010, 10:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20100908101649.GH13171@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <20100908032736.GC23409@capella.cs.uchicago.edu>

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder writes:

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> Rather than planning in advance and saving up a bunch of objects
> before a "commit" command, frontends might want to wait until the
> middle of a commit and request objects then.
> 
> Allow them to.
> 
> The new rule: a "cat" request can be inserted wherever a comment
> is allowed, which means at the start of any line except in the
> middle of a "data" command.

Excellent idea. This will certainly be useful when we start working on the zero-tree refactor.

> That's it for today.  I'll be on vacation for the next couple of weeks
> so I can't promise to be responsive.  Comments are still welcome,
> though (nothing is really different except that the latency may be
> longer).

Quick status update: David has started working on the IO backend that's necessary to get svn-fe to use svn-da. We'll start testing/ reviewing this series once that's done.

I'm busy studying for exams next week.

-- Ram