From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/3] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:46:54 +0530 Message-ID: <20100908101649.GH13171@kytes> References: <20100701031819.GA12524@burratino> <20100701054849.GA14972@burratino> <20100817170216.GA14491@kytes> <20100905031528.GA2344@burratino> <20100908032736.GC23409@capella.cs.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" , Sverre Rabbelier , David Barr , Sam Vilain To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 08 12:19:04 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtHk7-0003h8-ON for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:19:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758014Ab0IHKS6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:18:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:53632 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756838Ab0IHKS5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:18:57 -0400 Received: by pwi3 with SMTP id 3so1759830pwi.19 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:18:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=cd0Fc43o+hr6Hx+a3MRyc9L1ZkMejIniN6t2zXoW7k0=; b=x9XMu4oqMFZi1svr54mkHEBCIhmtDshZLHxDdyY929iElQgE+AaF8PaL4yP+1qGLfX YXuWoZnkKvw/jEVC2WkjXQcg0B+/lOABTD53X3+MwQZN/RbWa1NLWl1PPH7V7nAEAw/b QEa5a3jiLcLCIUsHIq54fX9DyzOT0JwC8dv6Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=dyNKNKaGxjeqjgvUVeLVY73szRSYNi1nvXJn4Pc+8HsiqhxfbH+N81+jlJOgvHAqOA yUrSxj1LBJk3sl4uDPcni4fDL9qoj+foNj3QuEx/FBb+M0vVmLggruow383NcOKlkRrC f6OMgJ+My34CsjisvWFeSBOaZ38qbLNa6uDc4= Received: by 10.142.217.9 with SMTP id p9mr515146wfg.296.1283941136777; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kytes ([203.110.240.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s34sm7015875wfc.8.2010.09.08.03.18.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100908032736.GC23409@capella.cs.uchicago.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Nieder writes: > 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. > > Allow them to. > > The new rule: a "cat" request can be inserted wherever a comment > is allowed, which means at the start of any line except in the > middle of a "data" command. Excellent idea. This will certainly be useful when we start working on the zero-tree refactor. > That's it for today. I'll be on vacation for the next couple of weeks > so I can't promise to be responsive. Comments are still welcome, > though (nothing is really different except that the latency may be > longer). Quick status update: David has started working on the IO backend that's necessary to get svn-fe to use svn-da. We'll start testing/ reviewing this series once that's done. I'm busy studying for exams next week. -- Ram