Re: git fast-export | git fast-import doesn't work

Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2008 01:14:

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote:

quoted

I would like to export our whole git repository to patches, and then 
reconstruct it again from scratch. Following the man page of "git 
fast-export":

[...] 

However, the repository is very different to the original one. It 
contains only 191 patches:

Can you try again with a Git version that contains the commit 
2075ffb5(fast-export: use an unsorted string list for extra_refs)?

With that commit cherry-picked onto today's master I get the same effect:

A) git fast-import crashes with dump generated by git fast-export -M -C
B) git fast-import produces disconnected DAG with dump generated by git
fast-export

With git 1.5.4, A) is good but B) is still bad.
Bisecting gives me (after remembering to put make in the run script,
uhm...)...

...

...tadah:


ae7c5dcef92d46cfc8987fde2c264614fe475bd1 is first bad commit
commit ae7c5dcef92d46cfc8987fde2c264614fe475bd1
Author: Alexander Gavrilov [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Jul 27 00:52:54 2008 +0400

    Support copy and rename detection in fast-export.

Oh well :(

Michael