Re: [PATCH v5 15/15] fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 26, 2012, 05:35 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> ...
> I would like to understand that that even means. What behavior is
> currently broken?

I do not know if this is the same as what Peff was referring to, but I found this message in the discussion thread during my absense.

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] fast-export: make sure refs are updated properly
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 16:17:14 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1211021612320.7256@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>

(which is $gmane/208946) that says:

	Note that

		$ git branch foo master~1
		$ git fast-export foo master~1..master

	still does not update the "foo" ref, but a partial fix is better
	than no fix.