Re: git fast-import --export-marks flag

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 28, 2011, 16:25 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinpZ=PjGpFozCAWscfms6uWBSO2y+XqCGGqB2KP@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D90B457.9040607@codicesoftware.com>

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:16, psantosl@codicesoftware.com <psantosl@codicesoftware.com> wrote:

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> git fast-import --export-marks is able to export to a file the marks and
> its associated commit hashes created during import.
>
> So far I've seen the marks are not the ones provided in the input but
> some "internal ones" not related with the input.
>
> Wouldn't it be much better, for import/export interop, if it kept the
> original marks?
>
> It would be certainly easier to do incremental import/export with
> external systems not dealing with SHAs...

I don't know what you are looking at, but fast-import uses the same mark numbers that were supplied in the input stream inside of the exported marks file. Otherwise as you pointed out, the marks are useless.

-- 
Shawn.