Re: [PATCH] import-tars: Allow per-tar author and commit message.

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Peter Krefting <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Junio C Hamano:
>
>> Unlike your "import-directories" that is a brand new program without
>> any existing users, you are touching code that other people have
>> already used, and you do not want to change the behaviour for them
>> only because they happen to have unrelated files in the same
>> directory.
>
> Indeed. Not that it is likely that one have stray filetar.gz.msg files
> just laying around, but I'll add a command line switch to enable the
> new functinality. That sounds like the most reasonable way to go,
> leaving the old usage completely unaffected by the change.

And the switch could be "--metainfo=<ext>", so that people can choose to
use other extensions, e.g. with "--metainfo=info" file.tar.info would be
read for descriptions.
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