From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:53:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: add ignore non-existent files option.
Message-ID: <7vfxojrvvp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080902043951.GB13248@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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?