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| author |  Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-08-01 10:23:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-08-19 03:38:36 -0400 |
| commit | ac053c02029d88c7ed4d7e92949a1586eb3f7704 (patch) | |
| tree | 84e5e58df838e7f27d8cee33cb1fae6d0f7b6917 /Documentation/core-intro.txt | |
| parent | Make trailing LF optional for all fast-import commands (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ac053c02029d88c7ed4d7e92949a1586eb3f7704.tar.xz | |
Allow frontends to bidirectionally communicate with fast-import
The existing checkpoint command is very useful to force fast-import
to dump the branches out to disk so that standard Git tools can
access them and the objects they refer to. However there was not a
way to know when fast-import had finished executing the checkpoint
and it was safe to read those refs.
The progress command can be used to make fast-import output any
message of the frontend's choosing to standard out. The frontend
can scan for these messages using select() or poll() to monitor a
pipe connected to the standard output of fast-import.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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