From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:40:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> and in the examples listed in the patch
>>> description the changed behavior does not look like an improvement.
>>
>> I disagree.
>>
>> % git log master ^master
>>
>> What do you expect? Nothing.
>
> Yep.
>
>> % git fast-export master ^master
>>
>> What do you expect? Nothing.

So you think what we have now is the correct behavior:

% git fast-export master ^master
reset refs/heads/master
from :0

That of course would crash fast-import. But hey, it's your opinion.

Would be interesting to see if other people think the above is correct.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras