Re: Malformed branch name in fast-export when specifying non-HEAD/branch revision

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2011, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BFRZMZjhWuUUeD7Oa1HbWQMnZot7dRm3zKOpCoj_QwZeg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAORuUR154Dhg5vDojga-01bDxxf+=R2X-oJK-0417CgmqxCwvA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Owen Stephens <git@owenstephens.co.uk> wrote:

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> fast-export gives an invalid branch name for commits, if the revision specified
> is not HEAD or a branch name.
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.7.6
>
> $ # Create
> $ git init export_test && cd export_test
> $ touch a && git add a && git commit -m 'Add a'
> $ touch b && git add b && git commit -m 'Add b'
> $ git branch branch1
>
> $ # ok
> $ git fast-export HEAD
>
> $ # also ok
> $ git fast-export branch1
>
> $ # uses HEAD~1 instead of refs/heads/master
> $ git fast-export HEAD~1
>
> blob
> mark :1
> data 0
>
> reset HEAD~1
> commit HEAD~1

Thanks for the report. It turns out this bug has been reported and is in the testsuite as t9350.19 -- currently marked as expected to fail. I looked at the problem a couple years ago for a little bit but never finished that particular patch and never got back around to it.