From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:36:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: add ignore non-existent files option. Message-ID: <7v8wubm22y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080902053503.GD13248@spearce.org> "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... >> I think selective loosening of consistency check makes sense very much, >> but I have been wondering if these should be command line options. >> >> The only example we saw so far is about output from one exporter. Perhaps >> it should be given to fast-import as initial set of commands ("#pragma"!) >> that describes the nature of the input file? > > Yea, I briefly considered that when I added the timestamp format > option. I didn't bother because it was a single option and I figured > most frontends start git-fast-import directly. But with this being > added a "format pragrma header thingy" makes a lot of sense. Oh, I did not mean to suggest hiding it as a comment to silently allow older fast-import slurp such input and produce broken results. For input that needs such loosened error checking, old fast-import won't produce correct results _anyway_, so I would agree that making these things into explicit commands to cause older fast-import to error out would make a lot more sense.