From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:45:57 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: <48511A85.9020200@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1213272962.6940.231.camel@gemini>

Yves Orton schrieb:
> BTW, for the record this was needed because we are trying to merge
> multiple git repos into a single new git repo with each original repo
> mapped into a subdirectory of the new repo, and with commit trees merged
> in more or less the correct order (by date applied more or less). IOW we
> dont want to have multiple "root commits" that are later merged. 

Try --date-order instead. It might work better for your task, and it still
offers a topologically correct order.

-- Hannes