From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:27:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting a commit sha1 from fast-import in a remote-helper
Message-ID: <20141119022759.GA9818@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141119022121.GU6527@google.com>

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 06:21:22PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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> ""

That's what I'm planning to try ; Would doing:
M 040000 <tree> ""
M 0644 <blob> some/path
D other/path

work? Or do I have to actually build a tree from the combination of the
output from various ls and those filedelete/filemodify?

Mike