[Libguestfs] [PATCH] v2v: add --in-place mode

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:51:39PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> First off, thanks for the review.  IIUC you are not opposed to the idea
> of adding the in-place operation mode in general, are you?  I'll work
> through your comments to make the patch fit better with the rest of the
> code.

I'd definitely want to see the final patch, but I'm not opposed in
principle.

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:54:59AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 07:29:57PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > > --- a/tests/guests/guests.xml.in
> > > +++ b/tests/guests/guests.xml.in
> > 
> > Let's not add this to tests/guests, since this disk image is only used
> > for a single test in the v2v/ subdirectory.
> > 
> > You can change the new test in the v2v/ subdirectory so it creates (or
> > is supplied with) the XML.  There are various tests which work like
> > that already - eg: v2v/test-v2v-cdrom.*
> 
> OK, makes sense, thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> While at this: do you think adding the test for the newly added option
> should go in the same commit with the option itself?  It may be easier
> to review separately, but YMMV, so please let me know which way you'd
> like it better.

Either way you like.  Sometimes we add tests as separate commits, and
sometimes in the same commit.

The only hard rule for commits is: don't break bisection.

Rich.

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