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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/3] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:57:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100908035732.GA24444@capella.cs.uchicago.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinU6TtFgLuQf54aZNE7-E3fDYLcmp25uiGRFgrV@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 22:27, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Rather than planning in advance and saving up a bunch of objects
>> before a "commit" command, frontends might want to wait until the
>> middle of a commit and request objects then.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the justification of this patch. Is the
> purpose of this patch to save you from having to loop over everything
> you want to commit in the next commit and cat-ing that in advance?

Yes.  In particular, an importer that wants to apply deltas
to generate the content for

 M 100644 inline foo

commands might use this.

Probably not relevant for svn-fe in its current design, since it uses
blob commands and remembers the tree as it builds it up.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-01  3:18 [PATCH/RFC] Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-01  5:48 ` [WIP/PATCH] Teach fast-import to print the id of each imported commit Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-02  3:16   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-02  3:41     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-02  4:29       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-02  5:12   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-02 14:55     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-02 15:40       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-02 15:48         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-04  0:02         ` Sam Vilain
2010-07-04  0:35           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-04  3:44             ` Sam Vilain
2010-07-04  7:22               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-17 17:02   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-05  3:15     ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] fast-import: give importers access to the object store Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-05  3:22       ` [PATCH 1/3] t9300 (fast-import): style tweaks Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  6:59         ` [PATCH/RFC 00/24] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:04           ` [PATCH 01/24] t9300 (fast-import): avoid exiting early on failure Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:05           ` [PATCH 02/24] t9300 (fast-import): avoid hard-coded object names Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:09           ` [PATCH 03/24] t9300 (fast-import): guard "export large marks" test setup Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  9:38             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-24 10:56               ` Raja R Harinath
2010-09-24 10:34             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-24 11:01               ` Raja R Harinath
2010-09-24  7:11           ` [PATCH 04/24] t9300 (fast-import): check exit status from upstream of pipes Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:11           ` [PATCH 05/24] t9300 (fast-import): check exit status from command substitutions Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:12           ` [PATCH 06/24] t9300 (fast-import): use test_cmp in place of test $(foo) = $(bar) Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:13           ` [PATCH 07/24] t9300 (fast-import): use tabs to indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  8:54             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-24  9:21               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:16           ` [PATCH 08/24] t9300 (fast-import), series A: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:22             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-24  7:35               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:18           ` [PATCH 09/24] t9300 (fast-import), series B: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:19           ` [PATCH 10/24] t9300 (fast-import), series C: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:19           ` [PATCH 11/24] t9300 (fast-import), series D: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:21           ` [PATCH 12/24] t9300 (fast-import), series E: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:22           ` [PATCH 13/24] t9300 (fast-import), series F: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:22           ` [PATCH 14/24] t9300 (fast-import), series H: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:23           ` [PATCH 15/24] t9300 (fast-import), series I: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:24           ` [PATCH 16/24] t9300 (fast-import), series J: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:25           ` [PATCH 17/24] t9300 (fast-import), series K: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:25           ` [PATCH 18/24] t9300 (fast-import), series L: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:26           ` [PATCH 19/24] t9300 (fast-import), series M: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:26           ` [PATCH 20/24] t9300 (fast-import), series N: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:27           ` [PATCH 21/24] t9300 (fast-import), series O: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:27           ` [PATCH 22/24] t9300 (fast-import), series P: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:28           ` [PATCH 23/24] t9300 (fast-import), series Q: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24  7:30           ` [PATCH 24/24] t9300 (fast-import), series R: re-indent Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-25  5:19           ` svn-fe status Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-25 10:25             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-27  2:54               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-27  9:15                 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-05  3:29       ` [PATCH 2/3] Teach fast-import to print the id of each imported commit Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-05  3:41       ` [PATCH 3/3] fast-import: Let importers retrieve the objects being written Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-05  6:08       ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] fast-import: give importers access to the object store Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-05  6:28         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-05  8:47           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-05 16:20             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-05 17:31         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-08  3:13       ` [PATCH 4/3] fast-import: typofix Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-08  3:17       ` [PATCH 5/3] fast-import: allow cat command with empty path Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-08  3:27       ` [PATCH 6/3] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-08  3:38         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-08  3:57           ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-09-08 10:16         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-16  0:14       ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] fast-import: give importers access to the object store Sam Vilain
2010-09-17 23:24         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-24 19:43         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-24 23:44           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-25  0:01             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-25  0:17               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-02  3:20 ` [PATCH/RFC] Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-02  4:42   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-02 12:44 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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