Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:50, David Barr <david.barr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On one hand, this makes the interface much uglier. > > Can you quantify this? What does it make uglier, and why? | -svnadmin dump --incremental REPO | svn-fe [url] | git fast-import | +mkfifo backchannel && | +svnadmin dump --incremental REPO | | + svn-fe [url] 3<backchannel | | + git fast-import --report-fd=3 3>backchannel The caller has to take care of backflow of data. Even if the "cat" command were never used, at least 3>/dev/null would be necessary to avoid fast-import waiting forever for the frontend to read from it. One way to work around this would be for svn-fe to launch fast-import itself. The main downside is that that would require a way to configure how fast-import is to be launched (for use with other vcs-fast-import backends and in even stranger scenarios). -- 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