On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1. When doing a "checkpoint" it would make sense to have some kind of
> feedback loop to know when fast-import completes it. In fact, I've
> just looked at fast-import man page and the "progress" command seems
> to do exactly that! Myabe we should crease a specific function for
> "checkpoint" that would call also "progress" instead of calling
> os.sleep().
# Force a checkpoint in fast-import and wait for it to finish
def checkpoint(self):
self.gitStream.write("checkpoint\n\n")
self.gitStream.write("progress checkpoint\n\n")
out = self.gitOutput.readline()
if self.verbose:
print "checkpoint finished: " + out
This seems to work! :)
> 2. In order to avoid needing to use "--force" it would be nice to have
> some form of "drop" command in fast-import that would allows us to
> actively drop an older commit after calling "reset" (this could even
> be an option of "reset"). This way fast-import would not find
> dangling commits in the end of the import. Maybe there's already
> some sort of command to achieve this in fast-import...? We could
> probably ask to one of its maintainers.
Just missing point 2 now.
--
Vitor Antunes
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