# Re: \[PATCH 7/7\] svn-fe: Use the --report-fd feature

- From: Sverre Rabbelier \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:46 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7486127
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7486073/t.md

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Heya,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:03, Jonathan Nieder [ref] wrote:
> The caller has to take care of backflow of data.  Even if the
> "cat" command were never used, at least 3>/dev/null would be
> necessary to avoid fast-import waiting forever for the frontend
> to read from it.

Why is that? If we disable the auto-printing of sha's wouldn't it only
write to the fd iff the cat command is used?

> One way to work around this would be for svn-fe to launch fast-import
> itself.

What would the pipeline look like then? In particular for git-remote-svn?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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