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Re: fast-import and unique objects.

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 7, 2006, 14:48 UTC
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Jon Smirl wrote:
> How about sending out a stream of add/change/delete operations
> interspersed with commits? That would let fast-import track the tree
> and only generate tree nodes when they change.

The problem with CVS, which cvsps (CVS PatchSet) tries to address is that changes are to a file, and reconstructing which changes go together to make _one_ commit...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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