From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:21:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting a commit sha1 from fast-import in a remote-helper
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> ""