From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 08:35:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Closing fds twice when using remote helpers
Message-ID: <20190516083519.5n6qmdw2aaqhjudd@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190516032802.GB4596@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:28:02PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> Totally orthogonal, but I think we might also want to introduce a helper
> capability so that import helpers can say "I always send 'done' to
> fast-import". And then we can pass "--done" to fast-import, which means
> it would detect a truncated stream.

Doubly orthogonal, but I wouldn't mind a helper capability that allows
import helpers to deal with creating git objects on their own rather
than having a fast-import spawned (git-cinnabar actually doesn't use the
fast-import stream it's offered to use, but can't be a fetch helper
either)

Mike