Re: [RFC/PATCH git-remote-bzr] Adapt to new semantics of remote-helper "import" command

> Git 1.7.7 (commit 9504bc9d, "transport-helper: change import
> semantics", 2011-07-16) incompatibly changed the interface of the
> "import" capability.
>
> Before, git would always send a single import command, which the
> remote helper would respond to with a fast-import stream, terminated
> by end of file, meaning there was no way to fetch multiple refs in one
> connection.  Nowadays, git instead sends a sequence of import lines:
>
> 	import refs/heads/foo
> 	import refs/heads/bar
>
> terminated by a blank line.  The helper is to respond with a
> fast-import stream terminated by the "done" command and process
> further commands until another blank line indicates the end of the
> command stream.
> ---
> Hi Simon and Gabriel,
>
> Here's a rough patch against git://github.com/lelutin/git-remote-bzr.git
> master.
>
> Without this patch, whenever I try to use "git clone bzr::<something>",
> after doing all the work it removes the resulting repo and exits with
> status 141 (SIGPIPE).  Maybe the transport-helper should mask SIGPIPE
> when writing the final newline to avoid that.
>
> I'd have prefered to write a patch for remote-bzr that works with
> older versions of git fast-import, too, but it wasn't obvious how.
> Hints welcome.
>
> BTW, would you mind if I sent a patch to include git-remote-bzr in
> git.git under contrib/?