Johannes Schindelin escreveu: > [WIP: this does not handle tags yet, and it lacks a test script > as well as documentation.] > > This program dumps (parts of) a git repository in the format that > fast-import understands. > > For clarity's sake, it does not use the 'inline' method of specifying > blobs in the commits, but builds the blobs before building the commits.B > > --- > I am way too tired now to continue, but maybe someone else wants > to pick up the ball. > > Oh, and it relies on "int" being castable to void * and vice > versa. Is anybody aware of a platform where this can lead to > problems? > > And yes, I will add a copyright when I woke up again. This one seems to setup a dump of a single branch from the command line, which then follows the commit structure. Am I missing something? The cool thing about git-fast-import is that it reads from stdin, has a very easy to use programmatic interface, and does not impose any order on how you enter the information. This doesn't seem to be mirrored by this script? I am working on a script for [company] which uses git. Git is a pain to script for: for every query I need to invoke another git process, with another command (log, show-ref, cat-file, show, etc.), parse another output format and/or specify another --pretty=format:%blah format. Besides being a nuisance, I actually run git on NFS, and every git process has to go to NFS a couple times to retrieve the same information. This has a noticeable performance impact. It would make my life a lot easier if I could simply open a pipe to a single process for the duration of the script, and do all my queries to this one process. Of course, if the repository is changed by another process, I would have to restart it, but that's manageable. I could even write a nice Python class that runs both fast-import and fast-export. I could then have an efficient Python interface to a git-repository, without needing any library wrapping. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen - 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
