Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] fast-import: give importers access to the object store

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 25, 2010, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTin_DvzhXSaT62Lr7D_CxD9V0vcaYE3u9PoQYZ+o@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100925000156.GA23735@burratino>

Heya,

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 02:01, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of a frontend that reads or writes the marks
> file itself, but import/export-marks features can also be used to just
> save/restore marks opaquely.

That's exactly what git-remote-hg does :). The hg exporter and importer doesn't care about where git stores it's marks. As long as they both use the same marks it all works.

> Thus I have no precedent to fall back on. :)

Seems like it.

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> Yep, that would work.  Still I don't think it makes a lot of sense to
> allow "feature report-fd=4" in the fast-import stream.  If I can
> ensure that fast-import has file descriptor 4 mapped to the right
> place, then I am in control of the process that starts fast-import, so
> a command-line option would be easy enough to use, no?

True. Perhaps some more input from others would help.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier