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| author | Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> | 2011-07-16 15:03:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-19 11:17:47 -0700 |
| commit | be56862f198d946dc75ac7092606e78a4f2ff1d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 26eaccb4d28d9fc5d4021dd8a576a00d06ef30fe /Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | |
| parent | 460d10262dae14b54123ff45e7548d872ff63983 (diff) | |
| download | git-be56862f198d946dc75ac7092606e78a4f2ff1d3.tar.gz | |
fast-import: introduce 'done' command
Add a 'done' command that causes fast-import to stop reading from the
stream and exit.
If the new --done command line flag was passed on the command line
(or a "feature done" declaration included at the start of the stream),
make the 'done' command mandatory. So "git fast-import --done"'s
input format will be prefix-free, making errors easier to detect when
they show up as early termination at some convenient time of the
upstream of a pipe writing to fast-import.
Another possible application of the 'done' command would to be allow a
fast-import stream that is only a small part of a larger encapsulating
stream to be easily parsed, leaving the file offset after the "done\n"
so the other application can pick up from there. This patch does not
teach fast-import to do that --- fast-import still uses buffered input
(stdio).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-fast-import.txt')
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1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 249249aac7..0fc68a911e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ OPTIONS when the `cat-blob` command is encountered in the stream. The default behaviour is to write to `stdout`. +--done:: + Require a `done` command at the end of the stream. + This option might be useful for detecting errors that + cause the frontend to terminate before it has started to + write a stream. + --export-pack-edges=<file>:: After creating a packfile, print a line of data to <file> listing the filename of the packfile and the last @@ -330,6 +336,11 @@ and control the current import process. More detailed discussion standard output. This command is optional and is not needed to perform an import. +`done`:: + Marks the end of the stream. This command is optional + unless the `done` feature was requested using the + `--done` command line option or `feature done` command. + `cat-blob`:: Causes fast-import to print a blob in 'cat-file --batch' format to the file descriptor set with `--cat-blob-fd` or @@ -1015,6 +1026,11 @@ notes:: Versions of fast-import not supporting notes will exit with a message indicating so. +done:: + Error out if the stream ends without a 'done' command. + Without this feature, errors causing the frontend to end + abruptly at a convenient point in the stream can go + undetected. `option` ~~~~~~~~ @@ -1044,6 +1060,15 @@ not be passed as option: * cat-blob-fd * force +`done` +~~~~~~ +If the `done` feature is not in use, treated as if EOF was read. +This can be used to tell fast-import to finish early. + +If the `--done` command line option or `feature done` command is +in use, the `done` command is mandatory and marks the end of the +stream. + Crash Reports ------------- If fast-import is supplied invalid input it will terminate with a |