Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport move over to using git for each ref to read refs V3

From: Andy Whitcroft <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:00:33 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> +	my $fmt = '($ref, $author) = (%(refname), %(author));';
>> +	open(H, "git-for-each-ref --perl --format='$fmt'|") or
>> +		die "Cannot run git-for-each-ref: $!\n";
>> +	while(defined(my $entry = <H>)) {
>> +		my ($ref, $author);
>> +		eval($entry) || die "cannot eval refs list: $@";
>> +
>> +		next if ($ref !~ m@^refs/heads/(.*)$@);
>> +		my ($head) = ($1);
>> +		$author =~ /^.*\s(\d+)\s[-+]\d{4}$/;
>> +		$branch_date{$head} = $1;
>>  	}
>> -	closedir(D);
>> +	close(H);
>>  }
> 
> for-each-ref let's you limit the refs by leading path, so I do
> not think "next if" inside the loop is needed if you say
> 
> 	for-each-ref --perl --format=$fmt refs/heads

Stupid boy :)

> 
> Any reason you did not like my version that allows you to get
> rid of the while() loop altogether?  (hint: replace eval in my
> example with "print" and see what you are evaling)

To my mind we avoid the 'mozilla repo' issue of 1000's of heads
busting some string length limit, or requiring some _vast_ string to
hold it (as perl is likely to cope).  Given we are sifting a small
percentage of the data out of it.

Let me know which way you want it and we'll go that way :).

-apw