From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>,
Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>,
Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>, Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 11/15] remote-testgit: make clear the 'done' feature
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:40:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1zWzaExNC9fOvfSQhxe6UmoDqOs39n_C3EN1JonBT0Dw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121112154515.GB3546@elie.Belkin>
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Max Horn wrote:
>
>> Aha, now I understand what this patch is about. So I would suggest
>> this alternate commit message:
>>
>> remote-testgit: make it explicit clear that we use the 'done' feature
>>
>> Previously we relied on passing '--use-done-feature ' to git
>> fast-export, which is easy to miss when looking at this script.
>
> I'm not immediately sure I agree this is even a problem. Is the point
> that other fast-import frontends do not have a --use-done-feature
> switch,
You mean other fast-exports.
And what other fast-exports? Most remote helpers don't use an external
fast-export tool, and the only I know that used one is the one I wrote
(and is now deprecated) that used bzr fast-export, and no, that one
didn't support the done feature.
Most remote helpers would probably be doing the equivalent of
fast-export themselves.
> so a typical remote helper has to do that work itself, and the
> sample "testgit" remote helper would be a more helpful example by
> doing that work itself?
Yes.
> The idea behind --use-done-feature is that if fast-export exits early
> for some reason and its output is going to a pipe then at least the
> stream will be malformed, making it easier to catch errors. So there
> is something to be weighed here: is it more important to illustrate
> how to make your fast-export tool's output prefix-free,
What fast-export tool?
This is a remote helper.
> or is it more
> important to illustrate how to work around a fast-export tool that
> doesn't support that feature?
Ditto.
If you want to launch a campaign of adding the 'done' feature to
whatever fast-export tools are out there (that I'm not aware of), go
ahead, but this is about remote helpers, most (all?) of which would
not use a fast-export tool to achieve the export, but do it
themselves.
Cheers.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-11 13:59 [PATCH v5 00/15] fast-export and remote-testgit improvements Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] fast-export: avoid importing blob marks Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 16:36 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2012-11-11 16:38 ` Jeff King
2012-11-12 17:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-11 17:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] remote-testgit: fix direction of marks Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 20:39 ` Max Horn
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] remote-helpers: fix failure message Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] Rename git-remote-testgit to git-remote-testpy Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] Add new simplified git-remote-testgit Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 20:40 ` Max Horn
2012-11-21 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 23:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] remote-testgit: get rid of non-local functionality Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 23:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] remote-testgit: remove irrelevant test Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] remote-testgit: cleanup tests Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-22 0:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] remote-testgit: exercise more features Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 23:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] remote-testgit: report success after an import Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] remote-testgit: make clear the 'done' feature Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 20:49 ` Max Horn
2012-11-11 21:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-12 11:20 ` Max Horn
2012-11-12 15:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-12 16:40 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2012-11-21 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 19:20 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] fast-export: trivial cleanup Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] fast-export: fix comparison in tests Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] fast-export: make sure updated refs get updated Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 20:43 ` Max Horn
2012-11-21 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-11 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs Felipe Contreras
2012-11-12 16:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-20 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 3:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 4:17 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-21 4:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 5:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 7:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 8:37 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 19:48 ` Jeff King
2012-11-22 0:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-26 5:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-26 12:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-26 16:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2012-11-26 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-26 19:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-26 19:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2012-11-26 21:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2012-11-26 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-21 22:30 ` Max Horn
2012-11-22 0:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 18:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-22 0:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-24 3:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 9:46 ` [PATCH v5 00/15] fast-export and remote-testgit improvements Felipe Contreras
2012-11-21 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-22 0:51 ` Felipe Contreras
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