Hi,
I am currently working on an interface for source code quality assurance
tools to automatically scan newly commited code. Since it is the only
way to add data (scan-results) to an already-existing commit, I decided
to use tags for that.
Since the scan-results will most definitly exeed the 8kb-limit, I would
like to remove this artificial restriction.
I know I could also
git-hash-object -t tag -w
but prefer using the "official" way.
In order not to write duplicate code I used parts of index_pipe() in
sha1_file.c
What I found odd when writing the patch was that main() in mktag.c uses
xread() to read from stdin (which respects EAGAIN and EINTR return
values), but index_pipe() in sha1_file.c just uses read() for doing
merely the same thing. For unifying both routines i found that xread()
might be the better choice.
Removing the restriction was pretty straightforward but do you think
this would break something in other places ?
[PATCH 1/2]
remove the < 8kb restrinction from git-mktag
[PATCH 2/2]
add more informative error messages to git-mktag
Bj
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