Another fast-import/import-tars issue

Hi, folks.

I believe I've uncovered an issue in fast-import, but I don't know the code well enough yet to debug it. So, I'll produce my evidence and let others work on finding the solution. It should be pretty easy to reproduce.

First, I'm running: 1.5.2.rc1.9.g6644

Grab the tarball of Perl 5.8.8 - http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

Note its md5, just so you know it's not corrupted from the outset. b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7 perl-5.8.8.tar.gz a377c0c67ab43fd96eeec29ce19e8382 perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

Try this:

$ tar -xjf perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 $ cd perl-5.8.8 $ git init $ git add . $ git commit -a -m "Import from working tree copy"

Now, for convenience of debugging, I have myself a script I call ~/bin/fast-import-filter.sh:

#!/bin/bash tee fast-import.log | git fast-import --quiet

Then, I have a slightly-changed ~/bin/import-tars script, like so:

20c20,21 < open(FI, '|-', 'git', 'fast-import', '--quiet') ---

Now,

$ import-tars.pl ../perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

Okay, so the trees pointed to by the tips of the master and import-tars branches *should* be identical here, right?

$ git diff-tree master: import-tars: | wc -l 229

Not so good.