The import-tars script is typically employed to (re)create the past
history of a project from stored tars. Although assigning authorship in
these cases can be a somewhat arbitrary process, it makes sense to set
the author to whoever created the tars in the first place (if it's
known), and (s)he can in general be different from the committer
(whoever is running the script).
Implement this by having separate author and committer data, making them
settable from the usual GIT_* environment variables.
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
format-patch: add MIME-Version header when we add content-type.
Fixed link in user-manual
import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" to identify directories
git name-rev writes beyond the end of malloc() with large generations
Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D example
Earlier, we used the mode to determine if a name was associated with
a directory. This fails, since some tar programs do not set the mode
correctly. However, the link indicator _has_ to be set correctly.
Noticed by Chris Riddoch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Randal L. Schwartz pointed out multiple times that we should be
testing the length of the name string here, not if it is "true".
The problem is the string '0' is actually false in Perl when we
try to evaluate it in this context, as '0' is 0 numerically and
the number 0 is treated as a false value. This would cause us
to break out of the import loop early if anyone had a file or
directory named "0".
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This extension allows GNU tar to process file names in excess of the 100
characters defined by the original tar standard. It does this by faking a
file, named '././@LongLink' containing the true file name, and then adding
the file with a truncated name. The idea is that tar without this
extension will write out a file with the long file name, and write the
contents into a file with truncated name.
Unfortunately, GNU tar does a lousy job at times. When truncating results
in a _directory_ name, it will happily use _that_ as a truncated name for
the file.
An example where this actually happens is gcc-4.1.2, where the full path
of the file WeThrowThisExceptionHelper.java truncates _exactly_ before the
basename. So, we have to support that ad-hoc extension.
This bug was noticed by Chris Riddoch on IRC.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* maint:
http.c: Fix problem with repeated calls of http_init
Add missing reference to GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in git-commit-tree documentation
Fix import-tars fix.
Update .mailmap with "Michael"
Do not barf on too long action description
Catch empty pathnames in trees during fsck
Don't allow empty pathnames in fast-import
import-tars: be nice to wrong directory modes
git-svn: Added 'find-rev' command
git shortlog documentation: add long options and fix a typo
This heeds advice from our resident Perl expert to make sure
the script is not confused with a string that ends with /\n
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some tars seem to have modes 0755 for directories, not 01000755. Do
not generate an empty object for them, but ignore them.
Noticed by riddochc on IRC.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
add a / between the prefix and name fields of the tar archive if prefix
is non-empty.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Not everyone has gzcat or bzcat installed on their system, but
gunzip -c and bunzip2 -c perform the same task and are available
if the user has installed gzip support or bzip2 support.
Signed-off-by: Michael Loeffler <zvpunry@zvpunry.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
There is a bug with this $git_mode variable which should be 0644
or 0755, but nothing else I think.
Signed-off-by: Michael Loeffler <zvpunry@zvpunry.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is an example fast-import frontend, in less than 100 lines
of Perl. It accepts one or more tar archives on the command line,
passes them through gzcat/bzcat/zcat if necessary, parses out the
individual file headers and feeds all contained data to fast-import.
No temporary files are involved.
Each tar is treated as one commit, with the commit timestamp coming
from the oldest file modification date found within the tar.
Each tar is also tagged with an annotated tag, using the basename
of the tar file as the name of the tag.
Currently symbolic links and hard links are not handled by the
importer. The file checksums are also not verified.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
