From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:21:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] import-tars: Allow per-tar author and commit message.
Message-ID: <7v8wh7pumr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908251950010.19406@ds9.cixit.se>

Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:

> 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.