From: Peter Krefting Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:52:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] import-tars: Allow per-tar author and commit message. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vab1pf3fj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano: > Unlike your "import-directories" that is a brand new program without any > existing users, you are touching code that other people have already used, > and you do not want to change the behaviour for them only because they > happen to have unrelated files in the same directory. Indeed. Not that it is likely that one have stray filetar.gz.msg files just laying around, but I'll add a command line switch to enable the new functinality. That sounds like the most reasonable way to go, leaving the old usage completely unaffected by the change. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/