From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: [Vcs-fast-import-devs] What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2009, #01; Wed, 07) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:58:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7viqeqjsx6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091008173900.GI9261@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , vcs-fast-import-devs@lists.launchpad.net, git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin To: Matt McClure X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 11 14:53:07 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 1Mwxv8-0002XE-Ll for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:53:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760651AbZJKL75 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:59:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757127AbZJKL75 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:59:57 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com ([209.85.219.208]:39578 "EHLO mail-ew0-f208.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756823AbZJKL74 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:59:56 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so1781873ewy.37 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:59:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=peb5P87R/ieOI6pztzaP3MhaB9Usp6hPh2o471kZrZ4=; b=SBwWSaHLgENyNRysJBG0x/zrHaIG8iOC92aAaIku/oU7MZZ+ynCt1fNfXWybIw0gVD 1GIN1+o/Yo7Vs0YBi2FZKyhKP5gKya3MrtYActbmSKiN+KWjUy8EUuNfqq2A902g7Hb4 mI3+ICzjAwfQLMfkC820Eddjwf7UntAk7c058= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=eofJeFA2/95CCJHXwUBBuFm2knWIgPRmuYzVcZUwrhMrTueXI7oC7dRI/pKEvG6X0S LEJhNvVztICeqdV2lwxFa0xcA+mu/dO4eAQik5liLXxzTpEPxzGHLvhvuP61qp/23WEf EEpAfuErSUuLnbOEAbbiu2zjtEkpUatQIblfY= Received: by 10.216.91.10 with SMTP id g10mr1441849wef.217.1255262359239; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:59:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 13:40, Matt McClure wrote: > Who is the fast-output developer to say that only one fast-import tool > should use his stream? He knows that a foreign tool that does not heed his 'option git stream-changing-option' will mis-parse the stream. For example the Bazaar people were talking about adding some Bazaar-specific options so facilitate bzr-bzr traffic, it would be impossible for a non-bzr importer to properly understand the stream if they were to ignore the bzr-specific options. So either options should only affect things that do not change semantics (such as perhaps whether or not to be quiet, whether to try and limit memory usage, etc), or it should be possible to indicate that an option is changes semantic and cannot be ignored. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier