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Re: Getting a commit sha1 from fast-import in a remote-helper

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 18, 2014, 02:35 UTC
Message-ID
<20141118023520.GB14034@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To
<20141118022137.GA8418@glandium.org>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:21:37AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:34:26AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For some reason, I need to know the sha1 corresponding to some marks
> > I'm putting in a fast-import stream. Unfortunately, this does not appear
> > to be possible.
> > - I'd rather not require a checkpoint to export marks each time I need
> >   such a sha1, and I'd rather not do that work that requires them after
> >   all the marks have been created (although currently, I'm forced to).
> 
> BTW, if it so happens that all the operations that were done end up
> creating objects that already existed for some reason, checkpoint
> doesn't do anything, which is fine for the pack and tags, but not
> necessarily so for export-marks.

And while I'm here, it's sad that one needs to emit a dummy cat-blob or ls command to wait for a checkpoint to be finished because they are the only commands that trigger something written on the cat-blob fd that can be waited for.

Mike.
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