On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 07:25:39AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> The git-fast-import manual page says about both cat-blob and ls that they can
> be used "anywhere in the stream that comments are accepted", but in practice
> it turns out it was only true for cat-blob. This change makes fast-import
> behavior match its documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org>
> ---
>  fast-import.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> The downside of this change is that if a script relies on the fixed behavior,
> it won't work with older versions of git. I'm not sure it is better than
> fixing the documentation to match the unfortunate current limitation?

Note, if my reading of the code is correct, then cat-blob can't be used
between filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall
| notemodify either...

Mike
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