# Issuing cat-blob or ls to fast-import from a remote helper

1 messages from 2012-08-07 to 2012-08-07. Participants: Marco Schulze.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31204

## Marco Schulze, 2012-08-07 22:41

Subject: Issuing cat-blob or ls to fast-import from a remote helper
Message-ID: <502199AC.2070909@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/502199AC.2070909%40gmail.com

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I've been toying with a git-remote-svn which uses fast-import (by 
advertising the 'import' capability) to get data into Git. 
Unfortunately, I can't get the result of any commands issued to 
fast-import, as its stdout is not redirected, and the remote helper API 
offers no alternative.

I tried modifiying transport-helper.c to force redirection 
(fast-import's stdout -> remote helper's stdin), but that breaks test 
t5800 (and possibly others). Is this a bug, or intended behaviour? Am I 
missing something?

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