I just found that for fast-export something similar was added to transport-
helper in a515ebe9.
By adding a capabilities advertised by the remote helper. Probably that would
be a nicer way to do that.
Btw, these added capabilities are not mentioned in Docs.
On Thursday 26 July 2012 09:32:35 Florian Achleitner wrote:
> fast-import internally uses marks that refer to an object via its sha1.
> Those marks are created during import to find previously created objects.
> At exit the accumulated marks can be exported to a file and reloaded at
> startup, so that the previous marks are available.
> Add command line options to the fast-import command line to enable this.
> The mark files are stored in info/fast-import/marks/.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner
> ---
> transport-helper.c |3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
> index e10fd6b..74f9608 100644
> --- a/transport-helper.c
> +++ b/transport-helper.c
> @@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ static int get_importer(struct transport *transport,
> struct child_process *fasti argv_array_push(argv, "fast-import");
> argv_array_push(argv, debug ? "--stats" : "--quiet");
> argv_array_pushf(argv, "--cat-blob-pipe=%s", data->report_fifo);
> + argv_array_push(argv, "--relative-marks");
> + argv_array_pushf(argv, "--import-marks-if-exists=marks/%s",
> transport->remote->name); + argv_array_pushf(argv,
> "--export-marks=marks/%s", transport->remote->name); fastimport->argv =
> argv->argv;
> fastimport->git_cmd = 1;
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