Nanako Shiraishi:
Instead of requiring the user to have millions of separate files, how about reading a single metainfo file that may look like this?
The advantage of having one (or more) files per tarball is that I can use the shell's tab completion to make sure I spell the name of the archive correctly. And that it makes it a lot easier to parse.
Sam Vilain:
Also I wonder if there isn't a nicer interface for users. Why not allow the file to specify From:, Committer: etc as header lines
Good idea. My initial patch was simple, just using the .msg file to add a message. Then I needed to have a different author for one commit, so I added the .author file. Then came the changes that are in the current import-tars that separates author and committer, hence the .committer file. Somewhere along there it became a bit too complex.
Parsing the .msg file for (optional) committer and author info is probably better. I'll update the patch.
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