On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm stuck with yet another issue while trying to export a mtn >> repository, so I thought on sharing the list of issues: >> >> a) directory rename/deletes are indistinguishable from files > > Hmm. I had thought fast-import allowed you to rename or delete a > directory by just name its path. Internally it should be cascading > those operations to all of the contained children. Aha! I didn't notice that. I guess I assumed 'filedelete' was for files only :) >> b) file mode changes are just like any other operation (you don't get >> the mode at each revision) >> >> This means the file mode needs to be tracked all the time. Also, it >> means the file contents (blob) needs to be tracked because sometimes >> the only change in the file is the mode. > > Ow. I could see a special case being introduced into the language as > placeholders for the fields, telling gfi not to replace the data if > it is already present. Probably not even a very difficult patch > to add. E.g. make "-" a placeholder for both mode and content > SHA-1/mark. Yeap, I thought about something that. I'll implement it then. >> For these two issues the only viable solution is to keep track of the >> whole tree of each revision. Does it makes sense to do that? Or would >> it make more sense to modify fast-import to allow more delta-oriented >> operations? > > Most frontends do keep track of everything. The CVS->Git and > CVS->SVNish->Git keep track of everything just so they can order > things across files to form commits/changesets. Well, CVS/SVN are special cases, are they using fast-import? In any case, I guess there's no way to make those generators simple, but I don't think for DSCMs generators should be that complicated. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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
