Felipe Contreras <[email protected]>:
> 1) I tried it, and it doesn't seem to import (pack?) are repository
> with sub-directories in it
I'll make sure my regression test checks this case. The options to git
ls-files are a bit confusing and it's possible my invocation of it
needs to change.
> 2) Using 'git fast-import' is probably simpler, and more efficient
That might well be. I'm not worried about "efficiency" in this context
but reducing the code size is significant and I'm willing to re-code
to do that.
> Here is a proof of concept I wrote in ruby that is half the size, and
> seems to implement the same functionality.
Not anywhere near the same. It only handles commits, not tags. It
doesn't issue delete ops. And it doesn't rebuild branch heads.
If I were willing to omit those features, I'm sure I could halve
the size of my implementation, too. Of course, it would then be
almost completely useless...
> The format is exactly the
> same, but I think it should be modified to be more efficient.
I'm not wedded to the log format as it is, so I'll cheerfully
take suggestions about it.
Be aware, however, that I consider easy editability by human beings
much more important than squeezing the last microsecond out of the
processing time. So, for example, I won't use data byte counts rather
than end delimiters, the way import streams do.
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