From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:52:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 14/16] transport-helper: add import|export-marks to fast-import command line.
Message-ID: <7vsjbo3pbo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1344971598-8213-15-git-send-email-florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>

Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com> writes:

> fast-import internally uses marks that refer to an object via its sha1.
> Those marks are created during import to find previously created objects.
> At exit the accumulated marks can be exported to a file and reloaded at
> startup, so that the previous marks are available.
> Add command line options to the fast-import command line to enable this.
> The mark files are stored in info/fast-import/marks/<remote-name>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
> ---
>  transport-helper.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
> index 7fb52d4..47db055 100644
> --- a/transport-helper.c
> +++ b/transport-helper.c
> @@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ static int get_importer(struct transport *transport, struct child_process *fasti
>  	fastimport->in = helper->out;
>  	argv_array_push(&argv, "fast-import");
>  	argv_array_push(&argv, debug ? "--stats" : "--quiet");
> +	argv_array_push(&argv, "--relative-marks");
> +	argv_array_pushf(&argv, "--import-marks-if-exists=marks/%s", transport->remote->name);
> +	argv_array_pushf(&argv, "--export-marks=marks/%s", transport->remote->name);

Is this something we want to do unconditionally?