From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:28:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example
Message-ID: <46EFA84C.3080906@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709181115250.28586@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> This is based on the git-import.sh script, but is a little
>> more robust and efficient. More importantly, it should
>> serve as a quick template for interfacing fast-import with
>> perl scripts.
> 
> Yes, please!  Maybe somebody will then grab the low-hanging fruit of 
> writing a "git-fast-export", which can be used to dump a complete 
> repository in text format?
> 

I thought that was already taken care of since format-patch handles
--root flag properly?

Otherwise, "git repack -a --window=0 --depth=0" should provide an
easily parseable dump of an entire repo.

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