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[PATCH 4/7] fast-export: Do parent rewriting to avoid dropping relevant commits

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Date
Jun 20, 2009, 04:37 UTC
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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

When specifying paths to export, parent rewriting must be turned on for fast-export to output anything at all.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
Try 'git fast-export master -- COPYING' in git.git and notice how there
is no output at all (whereas 'git rev-list master -- COPYING' does show
some existing revisions).  This simple patch restores the missing file
and commit in the fast-export output.
 builtin-fast-export.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-fast-export.c b/builtin-fast-export.c
index 9aa409b..b60a97e 100644
--- a/builtin-fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin-fast-export.c
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ int cmd_fast_export(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	revs.topo_order = 1;
 	revs.show_source = 1;
+	revs.rewrite_parents = 1;
 	if (prepare_revision_walk(&revs))
 		die("revision walk setup failed");
 	revs.diffopt.format_callback = show_filemodify;
-- 
1.6.3.2.323.gfb84f
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Message 11 of 14 in “A few fast-export fixups”
  1. newren@gmail.comJun 20, 2009
  2. 1/7 fast-export: Omit tags that tag treesnewren@gmail.com, Jun 20, 2009
  3. Jeff KingJun 20, 2009
  4. Elijah NewrenJun 20, 2009
  5. Jeff KingJun 20, 2009
  6. 2/7 Modify fast-export testcase to check that we correctly omit tags of treesnewren@gmail.com, Jun 20, 2009
  7. Stephen BoydJun 21, 2009
  8. Johannes SixtJun 21, 2009
  9. Elijah NewrenJun 22, 2009
  10. 3/7 fast-export: Make sure we show actual ref names instead of "(null)"newren@gmail.com, Jun 20, 2009
  11. 4/7 fast-export: Do parent rewriting to avoid dropping relevant commitsnewren@gmail.com, Jun 20, 2009
  12. 5/7 fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly dangling tagsnewren@gmail.com, Jun 20, 2009
  13. 6/7 Add new fast-export testcasesnewren@gmail.com, Jun 20, 2009
  14. 7/7 fast-export: Document the fact that git-rev-list arguments are acceptednewren@gmail.com, Jun 20, 2009

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