Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:03, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The caller has to take care of backflow of data. ÂEven 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. > > Why is that? If we disable the auto-printing of sha's Right, if we disable the auto-printing of sha's then that aspect goes away. >> One way to work around this would be for svn-fe to launch fast-import >> itself. > > What would the pipeline look like then? In particular for git-remote-svn? Probably something like: svnrdump dump uri -r <lower>:<upper> | svn-fe --fastimport='svn-filter-root ...' Doesn't the transport helper take care of launching fast-import itself? -- 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