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

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Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz>
Date
Nov 26, 2008, 15:50 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

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> Ondrej Certik venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2008 11:18:
>> 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.

I am also trying to make the example simpler. I tried to squash the first uninteresting ~1500 commits into one, but "git rebase -i" uterrly fails after squashing about 600 commits. Still investigating.

Ondrej
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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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