Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 17:32, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> where an error might go undiagnosed (and any error message drowned out >> by the summary fast-import writes at the end). >> >> Will think more. > > As far as I'm concerned that should be the responsibility of the > importer. If there is an error it should make sure not to drown the > error message with it's summary. I think it does a pretty good job at > that already though, doesn't it? It even saves a log file to try and > help you diagnose what went wrong. I was thinking specifically of the case where one is unlucky enough for the stream to end at a valid, early spot. The way all importers seem to end up is to call "git fast-import" as a child process (rather than advertising an interface like svnrdump dump <URI> | svn-fe | git fast-import ) so maybe this is not such a big deal. -- 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