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Re: [PATCH] import-tars: Allow per-tar author and commit message.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 25, 2009, 19:21 UTC
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Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano:
>
>> Unlike your "import-directories" that is a brand new program without
>> any existing users, you are touching code that other people have
>> already used, and you do not want to change the behaviour for them
>> only because they happen to have unrelated files in the same
>> directory.
>
> Indeed. Not that it is likely that one have stray filetar.gz.msg files
> just laying around, but I'll add a command line switch to enable the
> new functinality. That sounds like the most reasonable way to go,
> leaving the old usage completely unaffected by the change.

And the switch could be "--metainfo=<ext>", so that people can choose to use other extensions, e.g. with "--metainfo=info" file.tar.info would be read for descriptions.

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  1. import-tars: Allow per-tar author and commit message.Peter Krefting, Aug 23, 2009
  2. Nanako ShiraishiAug 23, 2009
  3. Sam VilainAug 23, 2009
  4. Peter KreftingAug 24, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2009
  6. Peter KreftingAug 25, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2009
  8. Peter KreftingAug 26, 2009

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