From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:32:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: fix ls command with empty path
Message-ID: <20120308193220.GA27916@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <CA+gfSn8bh-tV+uduM7xsuwqXQW2a57yvVmRXjXjp9JaO779bUg@mail.gmail.com>

Dmitry Ivankov wrote:

>  One more quick thought. "force the root mode to S_IFDIR" part doesn't
>  look obviously good for me.

It was just a problematic and incomplete version of what your "be
saner with temporary trees" does properly. ;-)

[...]
>  P.S. looking at [1] now I'd say the commit messages could be improved there
>
>  [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/179426

Yes, please.  Or patch 2/2 could be split into multiple patches,
perhaps along the following lines:

 - ls "" support, as in David's patch
 - ls <dataref> "" support, which requires the "be saner with
   temporaries" fix
 - D "" support, maybe.  (As you mentioned, we have deleteall so
   compatibility would dictate not supporting it unless some frontend
   is using it already by mistake in some circumstance.)
 - C "" <dest> support, as in my reply to David's patch
 - R "" <dest> support

Thanks,
Jonathan