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Re: [PATCH] fast-import: add ignore non-existent files option.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 2, 2008, 04:53 UTC
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> OK, that argument makes sense.  Then I wonder if more specific
> error ignoring would be better:
>
>   --ignore-error=already-deleted
>   --ignore-error=already-deleted,missing-mark,missing-copy-source
>
> I'm not really fond of turning an existing error condition that
> exists to catch broken frontends into a generic tolerant flag.
> But being able to selectively turn it off while leaving other
> errors as errors isn't entirely unreasonable.

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?

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  1. 1/1 fast-import: show a warning for non-existent files.Felipe Contreras, Sep 1, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2008
  3. Felipe ContrerasSep 1, 2008
  4. Shawn O. PearceSep 1, 2008
  5. Felipe ContrerasSep 1, 2008
  6. fast-import: add ignore non-existent files option.Felipe Contreras, Sep 1, 2008
  7. Shawn O. PearceSep 1, 2008
  8. Felipe ContrerasSep 1, 2008
  9. Shawn O. PearceSep 2, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2008
  11. Shawn O. PearceSep 2, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2008
  13. Felipe ContrerasSep 2, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2008
  15. Felipe ContrerasSep 1, 2008
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2008
  17. Felipe ContrerasSep 2, 2008

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