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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html