From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:08:30 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #06; Sun, 30)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0909011605400.3883@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <7viqg48nxi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano:

> * pk/import-dirs (2009-08-24) 1 commit
> - Add script for importing bits-and-pieces to Git.
>
> This version makes me suspect that the author might regret the choice of 
> the import format that does not allow escaping of paths, nor does not 
> allow leading blanks for readability without changing semantics, both of 
> which make it somewhat limiting and error prone.  These issues will be 
> hard to rectify without breaking the backward compatibility, for a tool 
> that could otherwise turn out to be useful.

If anyone has suggestions on improvements that can help with these issues, 
feel free to submit additional patches. Backwards compatibility is not an 
issue at the moment since it is new material and I so far is the only user 
of the tool (and since it is meant for one-shot imports, backwards 
compatibility is not very important).

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\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/