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authorLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2007-08-01 10:23:08 -0400
committerLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2007-08-19 03:38:36 -0400
commitac053c02029d88c7ed4d7e92949a1586eb3f7704 (patch)
tree84e5e58df838e7f27d8cee33cb1fae6d0f7b6917 /gitk
parentMake trailing LF optional for all fast-import commands (diff)
downloadtgif-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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