[darcs-devel] [patch1111] implement log --fast-export to output git-fast-import ...

Guillaume Hoffmann guillaumh at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 01:01:15 UTC 2014


> I'm glad this is moving forward. But why add these significant commands
> as hard-to-discover sub-options of the convert command, which already
> has a well-understood purpose. import and export commands seems better
> to me (like svn, hg, git, ...).

I don't feel strongly about that, but inertia will probably make me
screen this patch as it is now.

My main motivation is to avoid creating too many top-level commands.
Moreover, one command for all repositories conversion features does
not seem artificial to me. The short description of convert is
"Convert repositories between various formats.". Also, it's not like
users will be converting repos all the time..

The door is open to introduce import and export as aliases for
`convert --import` and `convert --export` if we feel we need it, but
personally I don't.


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