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commit 05cab52530332c97aca9d8c78a8cae2f82f00896
Author: Jérémie Galarneau <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Feb 28 21:27:45 2013 -0500

    Fix: Ensure the specified input format is CTF

    Add a check to make sure the input trace format argument passed to the
    babeltrace converter is "ctf" as it is currently the only one supported.

    Add a note to this effect in the man page.

    Fixes #462

    Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Yep, a clearer error message could help. please file a bug on
> bugs.lttng.org.
>
> * Thibault, Daniel ([email protected]) wrote:
>>    What is the babeltrace -i, --input-format option meant for?  At first I 
>> thought one could round-trip a CTF trace to text and back using babeltrace, 
>> but if I try this:
>>
>> $ babeltrace /path_to_the/ctf_trace_directory -w /path_to_the/text_trace_file
>> $ babeltrace /path_to_the/text_trace_file -i text -o ctf -w 
>> /path_to_the/reconstituted_ctf_trace_directory
>>
>>    The second command gives me:
>>
>> [error] Cannot open any trace for reading.
>> [error] opening trace "/path_to_the/text_trace_file" for reading.
>> [error] none of the specified trace paths could be opened.
>>
>>    If '-i ctf' is the only currently-implemented option, then we should get 
>> a more appropriate error message when using another: something along the 
>> lines of "babeltrace input format not supported ".
>>
>> Daniel U. Thibault
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> Mathieu Desnoyers
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