Re: git-fast-import question

Thanks for the tip - you're right in that I don't have what I think I have.

Namely, there are entire sections of the dump file that aren't getting imported. fast-import isn't complaining about it either.

commit refs/heads/foo <various metadata> M 100644 :mark path/to/some/file

Isn't getting imported (to any branch, let alone refs/heads/foo)

So when the later commit wants to rename the file, it can't be found.

Digging a bit deeper, I found a few cases where I'd have something along the lines of:

commit refs/heads/foo mark :1 <etc, etc.>

commit refs/heads/foo mark :2 from :1 <etc, etc>

ie. two sequential commits, to the same branch. The first commit is being imported; the second commit isn't being imported. Many subsequent commits are similarly cast aside - then for no reason I can tell, commits start getting imported again. I'd expect fast-import to complain, but that doesn't seem to be happening.