From: Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:09:12 GMT
Subject: Re: git-p4import.py robustness changes
Message-ID: <56b7f5510706032309w4aee791dnd3bf5d46974bdaba@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070604055433.GD4507@spearce.org>

On 6/3/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 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,
-- 
Dana L. How  danahow@gmail.com  +1 650 804 5991 cell