Re: [WIP PATCH] fast-export: emit deletions first

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 7, 2026, 04:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20260407042624.GB627864@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <k3qg4jodn425cjvorvdl4j24ik7c4jwmwudwsowe4doth7devn@f5xbrskansmj>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 09:12:19PM -0400, Raymond E. Pasco wrote:

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> On 26/04/06 10:15AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > In any case, it is a bit surprising that fast-export survived this
> > long without having encountering the problem you are solving.  I
> > wonder if fast-import handles such an output with some smart to
> > avoid the issue?
> 
> I was surprised too. The case where this was encountered was a repo
> that had a directory symlink, and promoted it to a real directory,
> but the symlink turned out to be a red herring, it's purely path
> prefixes.

That's the original case from 2015, too. Which I guess is not too surprising, since it's probably a more common conversion than a true directory-into-file. There was a patch with a test provided in one of the threads I linked earlier, in case that helps, but it is pretty easy to write a new one.

-Peff