From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:13:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Does git fast-import support deltas?
Message-ID: <20130419061323.GB5055@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <1095757971.20130419092931@gmail.com>

Hi Ilya,

Ilya Basin wrote:

> 1) a created a git repo from a foreign source using git fast-import
> 2) new commits were added to the foreign source
>
> Can I create a fast-import input stream not containing the commits
> already existing in my git repo and import it?

Yes, if the foreign source is structured in a way to make it easy.
Take a look at the --cat-blob-fd option, the "ls" and "cat-blob"
commands, and see svn-fe from contrib/svn-fe/ as an example.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan