On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
David Frech <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/16/07, Julian Phillips <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now the question. Shawn recently added C and R operations - almost as
soon as they were asked for too. However, how do you copy a file from a
particular revision?
I have to second Julian's question.
I'm getting to it. Maybe this weekend. Right now I have git-gui
work to finish, and that work is more important to me this week than
fast-import is. Not that fast-import isn't important to me either,
its just the way things are this week.
No complaints from me - git-gui is one of the reasons I want to be able to
use fast-import ;)
The comment/question is: how different is this, really, from being
able to specify a "from" line in a commit? In both cases I'm asking
fast-import to reach into its memory (or the repo) and pull out a
tree, and to add (some or all of it) to my current branch. Isn't the
kind of generic C command that Julian and I are asking for the same
thing, only instead of taking the whole tree (from the specified
commit) it takes a single file or directory?
It is possible. I'm just not sure what the syntax for it should be.
Suggestions? I really want to stay backwards compatible with the
current "C" command, so:
'C' SP commit SP path SP path
is out because its ambiguous with the current meaning where the
second (destination) path can contain SP without being quoted by
the frontend.
You could always make it part of the 'M' command?
'M' sp mode sp 'copy' sp path_str lf (ref_str | hexsha1 | sha1exp_str |
idnum) SP path_str;
Or just make it a new command, O (for other) or E (for existing) maybe? :S
--
Julian
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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