From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Krefting Subject: Re: Requirements for integrating a new git subcommand Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:27:23 +0100 (CET) Organization: /universe/earth/europe/norway/oslo Message-ID: References: <20121122053012.GA17265@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 23 10:27:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TbpY0-0007II-Tv for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:27:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758666Ab2KWJ1b (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:27:31 -0500 Received: from upper-gw.cixit.se ([92.43.32.133]:54034 "EHLO mail.cixit.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758644Ab2KWJ13 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:27:29 -0500 Received: from ds9.cixit.se (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qAN9RNM9006374 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:27:23 +0100 Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by ds9.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id qAN9RN5Z006371; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:27:23 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: ds9.cixit.se: peter owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: <20121122053012.GA17265@thyrsus.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Accept: text/plain X-Warning: Junk / bulk email will be reported X-Rating: This message is not to be eaten by humans X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.7 (mail.cixit.se [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:27:23 +0100 (CET) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond: > git-weave(1) > Yes, there are scripts in contrib that do similar things. I was just about to say that the import direction of this seems to fill the same need as contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl that I submitted a few years back. Your version seems only to be able to import a linear history, however, my tool does support creating merge commits (basically, the history I had to import was very messy and contained a lot of snapshot directories having been worked on in parallel). > (b) I am shipping it with a functional test, Hmm, indeed. I have been thinking of trying to wrap up the test suite I have locally into something that could work within the Git testing framework, but haven't found the time to or energy for so far. Anyway, my sentiment is that if you can add support for merges in you weave tool, then I am very much for removing my old script from the repository. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/