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Re: git-fast-export bug, commits emmitted in incorrect order causing parent data to be lost from commits turning essentially linear repo into "islands"

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Jun 12, 2008, 11:53 UTC
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<48510E2E.6090508@viscovery.net>
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Yves Orton schrieb:
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> Hi,
> 
> Ive been working with git-fast-export a bit recently and Ive hit a bug
> that is causing some trouble. 
> 
> Essentially it seems that one of our repos git-fast-export fails to emit
> the proper 'from' information for several commits in the repo. These
> commits are emitted first without parent data even though their parents
> ARE emitted later.

Does it make a difference if you pass --topo-order to git fast-export? (But I don't know for certain that this is even legal.)

-- Hannes
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