From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:05:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: Don't barf if import-marks file is missing
Message-ID: <7vei8j435f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1294766058-29739-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> The --import-marks option used to barf when the specified marks file
> doesn't exist. Change its meaning to "read marks file if it exists" so
> that callers don't have to handle bootstraping as a special case.

It is very plausible that people other than you are relying on "barf if it
does not exist" semantics, and the above does not justify breaking their
workflow.

I'd suggest making this an optional feature.