Re: Another question about importing SVN with fast-import

> David Frech <david@nimblemachines.com> wrote:
>> On 7/16/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Now the question.  Shawn recently added C and R operations - almost as
>>> soon as they were asked for too.  However, how do you copy a file from a
>>> particular revision?
>>
>> I have to second Julian's question.
>
> I'm getting to it.  Maybe this weekend.  Right now I have git-gui
> work to finish, and that work is more important to me this week than
> fast-import is.  Not that fast-import isn't important to me either,
> its just the way things are this week.

>> The comment/question is: how different is this, really, from being
>> able to  specify a "from" line in a commit? In both cases I'm asking
>> fast-import to reach into its memory (or the repo) and pull out a
>> tree, and to add (some or all of it) to my current branch. Isn't the
>> kind of generic C command that Julian and I are asking for the same
>> thing, only instead of taking the whole tree (from the specified
>> commit) it takes a single file or directory?
>
> It is possible.  I'm just not sure what the syntax for it should be.
> Suggestions?  I really want to stay backwards compatible with the
> current "C" command, so:
>
> 	'C' SP commit SP path SP path
>
> is out because its ambiguous with the current meaning where the
> second (destination) path can contain SP without being quoted by
> the frontend.