From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:36:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-export: Avoid dropping files from commits Message-ID: <7vy6utt0op.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, newren@gmail.com wrote: > >> From: Elijah Newren >> >> When exporting a subset of commits on a branch that do not go back to a >> root commit (e.g. master~2..master), we still want each exported commit to >> have the same files in the exported tree as in the original tree. >> >> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren >> --- > > Makes sense. Hmm, does it? Shouldn't an export with a bottom commit be always considered an incremental? Why special case --import-marks? When you say "I want to export master~2..master", isn't the intention (unstated, because it is too obvious) that follows it "... because I do have master~2 already and I would want to replay the export on top of that state"? If all of master~2, master~1 and master have a file "frotz" with exactly the same contents, I thought you wouldn't even have to have that same contents repeated in the export datastream. Or am I (again) entirely misunderstanding the intended use case?