Re: git-fast-import

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 04:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702062347060.20138@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070206061817.GB10508@spearce.org>

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >SYNOPSIS
> > >--------
> > >frontend | 'git-fast-import' [options]
> > >
> > 
> > Do we have example frontend  that can be added along with gfi ?
> 
> Not yet.  Some frontends are available here on repo.or.cz:
> 
>   gitweb: http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git
>   clone:  git://repo.or.cz/fast-export.git
> 
> But both lack branch support, for example, so they probably aren't
> nearly as complete as the existing non-gfi based importers.

It might be nice to have a git-fast-export, which could actually be potentially useful for generating a repository with systematic differences from the original. (E.g., to make a repository of git's Documentation directory, with just the commits that affect it)

That might also be a big help to projects that find they should have been using more, fewer, or different repositories through their history.

Also, I'd guess that it would be pretty straightforward and easy to understand, plus easy to verify correctness on large examples with.

	-Daniel
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