From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Krefting Subject: Re: [PATCH] import-tars: Allow per-tar author and commit message. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:52:16 +0100 (CET) Organization: /universe/earth/europe/norway/oslo Message-ID: References: <20090823203640.B195D189B12@perkele> <4A91B8BB.1030906@vilain.net> <7vab1pf3fj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Nanako Shiraishi , Sam Vilain , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 25 20:53:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mg195-0007k0-5T for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:53:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756013AbZHYSwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:52:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755725AbZHYSwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:52:25 -0400 Received: from upper-gw.cixit.se ([92.43.32.133]:37960 "EHLO mail.cixit.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755715AbZHYSwX (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:52:23 -0400 Received: from ds9.cixit.se (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n7PIqGdt019783 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:52:16 +0200 Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by ds9.cixit.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n7PIqG0W019779; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:52:16 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ds9.cixit.se: peter owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: <7vab1pf3fj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Accept: text/plain X-Warning: Junk / bulk email will be reported X-Rating: This message is not to be eaten by humans X-Greylist: Sender is SPF-compliant, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.cixit.se [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:52:16 +0200 (CEST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano: > Unlike your "import-directories" that is a brand new program without any > existing users, you are touching code that other people have already used, > and you do not want to change the behaviour for them only because they > happen to have unrelated files in the same directory. Indeed. Not that it is likely that one have stray filetar.gz.msg files just laying around, but I'll add a command line switch to enable the new functinality. That sounds like the most reasonable way to go, leaving the old usage completely unaffected by the change. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/