# git-fast-export doesn't support mergetag header

2 messages from 2017-08-01 to 2017-08-01. Participants: David Turner, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/46497

## David Turner, 2017-08-01 20:10

Subject: git-fast-export doesn't support mergetag header
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It looks to me like git-fast-export doesn't export the mergetag header on a commit.  Is this intentional, or an oversight?

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## Junio C Hamano, 2017-08-01 20:17

Subject: Re: git-fast-export doesn't support mergetag header
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David Turner <David.Turner@twosigma.com> writes:

> It looks to me like git-fast-export doesn't export the mergetag
> header on a commit.  Is this intentional, or an oversight?

Most likely the latter, combined with that probably not many people
use the tool with histories with merges in them (hence not reported
as a bug so far).

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