From: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:15:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 14/16] transport-helper: add import|export-marks to fast-import command line.
Message-ID: <2151883.HpdNaV7ITK@flomedio>
In-Reply-To: <1343287957-22040-15-git-send-email-florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>


I just found that for fast-export something similar was added to transport-
helper in a515ebe9.
By adding a capabilities advertised by the remote helper. Probably that would 
be a nicer way to do that.
Btw, these added capabilities are not mentioned in Docs.

On Thursday 26 July 2012 09:32:35 Florian Achleitner wrote:
> fast-import internally uses marks that refer to an object via its sha1.
> Those marks are created during import to find previously created objects.
> At exit the accumulated marks can be exported to a file and reloaded at
> startup, so that the previous marks are available.
> Add command line options to the fast-import command line to enable this.
> The mark files are stored in info/fast-import/marks/<remote-name>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
> ---
>  transport-helper.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
> index e10fd6b..74f9608 100644
> --- a/transport-helper.c
> +++ b/transport-helper.c
> @@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ static int get_importer(struct transport *transport,
> struct child_process *fasti argv_array_push(argv, "fast-import");
>  	argv_array_push(argv, debug ? "--stats" : "--quiet");
>  	argv_array_pushf(argv, "--cat-blob-pipe=%s", data->report_fifo);
> +	argv_array_push(argv, "--relative-marks");
> +	argv_array_pushf(argv, "--import-marks-if-exists=marks/%s",
> transport->remote->name); +	argv_array_pushf(argv,
> "--export-marks=marks/%s", transport->remote->name); fastimport->argv =
> argv->argv;
>  	fastimport->git_cmd = 1;