Re: git-p4import.py robustness changes

From: Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2007, 06:09 UTC
Message-ID: <56b7f5510706032309w4aee791dnd3bf5d46974bdaba@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070604055433.GD4507@spearce.org>

On 6/3/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> I think writing data to fast-import is much easier than running
> the raw Git commands, especially when you are talking about an
> import engine where you need to set all of the special environment
> variables for git-commit-tree or git-tag to do its job properly.
> Its a good tool that simply doesn't get enough use, partly because
> nobody is using it...

Well, perhaps they use it *once*, in that they write a wrapper script for it and then forget about it. At least that's what I did. And the _only_ annoyance was the trailing NL requirement on the delimited "data" statement, so you don't get much noise/complaints when people use it.

Thanks,

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