Junio C Hamano wrote: > Assuming that you do have and are willing to read the original file, > you have three possible (and one impractical) approaches: [...] > - Apply the foreign changes to the original file yourself, and feed > the resulting content to fast-import in full, letting fast-import > convert into the format Git understands.
This (when importing from Subversion) was the motivation for introducing fast-import's cat-blob command, for what it's worth. [...] > In short, the most practical solution would be to reconstitute a > full object and feed that to fast-import, unless you already have > xdelta or you can turn your foreign change into xdelta without ever > looking at the original. If your delta format happens to be similar enough to xdelta, then streaming in deltas in xdelta format does sound like a neat trick. Maybe it would be useful to provide a micro-library that creates and validates xdelta opcodes for fast-import frontends to use. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
