From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:53:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fast-export bug, commits emmitted in incorrect order causing parent data to be lost from commits turning essentially linear repo into "islands"
Message-ID: <48510E2E.6090508@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1213266100.6940.207.camel@gemini>

Yves Orton schrieb:
> 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