Re: [PATCH] fast-import: support the ls command anywhere comments are accepted

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 07:25:39AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > The git-fast-import manual page says about both cat-blob and ls that they can
> > be used "anywhere in the stream that comments are accepted", but in practice
> > it turns out it was only true for cat-blob. This change makes fast-import
> > behavior match its documentation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
> > ---
> >  fast-import.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > The downside of this change is that if a script relies on the fixed behavior,
> > it won't work with older versions of git. I'm not sure it is better than
> > fixing the documentation to match the unfortunate current limitation?
> 
> Note, if my reading of the code is correct, then cat-blob can't be used
> between filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall
> | notemodify either...