From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:33:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-fastimport plugin, yet another Bazaar import option]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802221031550.17164@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080222073228.GF8410@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy@internode.on.net> wrote:
>  
> > BTW, you might want to either extend the specification (a little) or 
> > fix git-fast-export so they match. :-) See doc/notes.txt under 
> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr-fastimport/fastimport.dev/files 
> > for details. For example, running git-fast-export on 64-bit Hardy 
> > Heron produces file modes longer than permitted if the spec was 
> > strictly interpreted.
> 
> We may need to take a small hammer to git-fast-export and fix its 
> output.  Generating long mode strings like your notes suggest is 
> incorrect.

Indeed.  Raising the issue with the original author of git-fast-export 
would not have hurt either.

Ciao,
Dscho