From: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: Allow filemodify to set the root
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:33:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAED762.7040708@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101008081509.GA2845@kytes>
Hello,
On 2010-10-08 04:15, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> index 966ba4f..90a4666 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> @@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ start with double quote (`"`).
> If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style
> quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`.
>
> +Additionally, in `040000` mode, `<path>` may also be an empty string
> +(`""`) to specify the root of the tree.
> +
> The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not:
>
> * contain an empty directory component (e.g. `foo//bar` is invalid),
Thanks for keeping documentation up to date :)
Although, I think the documentation should be a bit more precise about
what "specifying the root of the tree" means for a 'filemodify' command
and its implication on performance (i.e. why there's actually this
special case in the syntax)
--
Gabriel Filion
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-08 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 10:55 [PATCH] fast-import: Allow filemodify to set the root David Barr
2010-10-07 13:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-07 20:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-07 20:35 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-07 23:45 ` David Barr
2010-10-07 23:46 ` David Barr
2010-10-07 23:55 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-08 6:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-08 7:05 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 7:23 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-08 8:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 8:15 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-08 8:33 ` Gabriel Filion [this message]
2010-10-08 8:58 ` David Michael Barr
2010-10-08 16:34 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-08 17:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-09 22:11 ` David Michael Barr
2010-10-09 22:12 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-10 3:30 ` David Barr
2010-10-11 6:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 1:00 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 1:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] fast-import: filemodify after M 040000 <tree> "" crashes Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 1:13 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 1:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-20 20:25 ` [PATCH] fast-import: do not clear notes in do_change_note_fanout() Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 1:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] fast-import: tighten M 040000 syntax Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-16 2:22 ` [PATCH] Documentation/fast-import: put explanation of M 040000 <dataref> "" in context Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-18 15:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-18 21:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-18 21:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-18 22:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
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