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Re: Getting a commit sha1 from fast-import in a remote-helper

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 19, 2014, 02:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20141119022121.GU6527@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20141119021824.GA9094@glandium.org>
Mike Hommey wrote:
> So, in the end, I was able to do everything with what's currently
> provided by git fast-import, but one thing would probably make life
> easier for me: being able to initialize a commit tree from a commit
> that's not one of the direct parents.

IIRC then 'M 040000' wants a tree object, not a commit object, so you'd have to do

	ls <commit> ""
	M 040000 <tree> ""
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