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Re: git fast-export | git fast-import doesn't work

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Nov 26, 2008, 15:35 UTC
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Ondrej Certik venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2008 11:18:
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like to export our whole git repository to patches, and then
>>>> reconstruct it again from scratch. Following the man page of "git
>>>> fast-export":
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> However, the repository is very different to the original one. It
>>>> contains only 191 patches:
>>> Can you try again with a Git version that contains the commit
>>> 2075ffb5(fast-export: use an unsorted string list for extra_refs)?
>> I tried the next branch:
>>
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.6.0.4.1060.g9433b
>>
>> that contains the 2075ffb5 patch. I haven't observed any change ---
>> the "git log" still only shows 191 commits (git log --all shows
>> everything).
> 
> I deleted all tags and then fast-exported and imported, now all the
> commits show in "git log", however, the patches are wrongly connected.
> Basically, both repositories are identical (including hashes) up to
> this commit:
> 
> d717177d4  (fixed downloads instructions in the README and a typo)
> 
> However, the original repo (sympy-full-history-20081023) contains 3
> children at this commit:

There's some nice 3 way branching and double 2 way merging going on. I cut out the interesting part of the graph, making d717177d4 and 6e869485f parentless. The resulting mini DAG is reproduced correctly by export|import, even with -M -C.

Michael
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  1. Ondrej CertikNov 25, 2008
  2. Michael J GruberNov 25, 2008
  3. Miklos VajnaNov 25, 2008
  4. Ondrej CertikNov 25, 2008
  5. david@lang.hmNov 25, 2008
  6. Ondrej CertikNov 25, 2008
  7. Peter BaumannNov 25, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 26, 2008
  9. Ondrej CertikNov 26, 2008
  10. Ondrej CertikNov 26, 2008
  11. Michael J GruberNov 26, 2008
  12. Ondrej CertikNov 26, 2008
  13. Johannes SixtNov 26, 2008
  14. Ondrej CertikNov 27, 2008
  15. Ondrej CertikMay 3, 2009
  16. Johannes SchindelinNov 26, 2008
  17. Michael J GruberNov 26, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinNov 26, 2008
  19. Alexander GavrilovDec 7, 2008
  20. Johannes SchindelinDec 8, 2008
  21. Ondrej CertikNov 26, 2008
  22. Andreas EricssonNov 27, 2008
  23. Michael J GruberNov 26, 2008
  24. Johannes SchindelinNov 26, 2008
  25. Ondrej CertikNov 26, 2008

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