On Thursday 26 July 2012 06:40:39 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Steven Michalske wrote: > > On Jul 2, 2012, at 4:07 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >>> diff: Use fifo instead of pipe: Retrieve the name of the pipe from env > >>> and open it for svndump. > >> > >> I'd prefer to avoid this if possible, since it means having to decide > >> where the pipe goes on the filesystem. Can you summarize the > >> discussion in the commit message so future readers understand why > >> we're doing it? > > > > Crazy thought here but would a socket not be a bad choice here? > > Not crazy --- it was already mentioned. It could probably allow using > --cat-blob-fd even on the platforms that don't inherit file > descriptors >2, though it wuld take some tweaking. Though I still > think the way forward is to keep using plain pipes internally for now > and to make the bidirectional communication optional, since it > wouldn't close any doors to whatever is most convenient on each > platform. Hopefully I'll hear more from Florian about this in time.
Would you like to see a new pipe patch? > > > Imagine being able to ssh tunnel into the SVN server and run the helper > > with filesystem access to the SVN repo. > > We're talking about what communicates between the SVN dump parser the > version control system-specific backend (git fast-import) that reads > the converted result, so that particular socket wouldn't help much. > Yes .. the network part is already handled quite well by svnrdump. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
