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Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 18, 2007, 11:17 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > Maybe somebody will then grab the low-hanging fruit of writing a 
> > "git-fast-export", which can be used to dump a complete repository in 
> > text format?
> 
> I thought that was already taken care of since format-patch handles
> --root flag properly?

Umm. Probably you forgot about merge commits, right? And about more than one branch?

> Otherwise, "git repack -a --window=0 --depth=0" should provide an easily 
> parseable dump of an entire repo.
This is not a dump.  It is a log.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 11 of 11 in “contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example”
  1. contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple exampleJeff King, Sep 18, 2007
  2. Jeff KingSep 18, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinSep 18, 2007
  4. Andreas EricssonSep 18, 2007
  5. Jeff KingSep 18, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinSep 18, 2007
  7. Andreas EricssonSep 18, 2007
  8. Sam VilainSep 18, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinSep 18, 2007
  10. Sam VilainSep 18, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinSep 18, 2007

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