From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, monotone-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mtn to git conversion script
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:46:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080824224658.GA16590@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530808241133n5cc9f17arc79a1a5013187869@mail.gmail.com>
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:18:50PM +0300, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What do you think? Does it makes sense to have a 'write-raw' command?
> >> Or should I somehow use 'fast-import'?
> >
> > Yes, you should. ;-)
> >
> > The syntax of it is not so hard, see for example 'git fast-export
> > HEAD~2..' on a git repo and you'll see.
> >
> > This should help a lot if you are like me, who likes to learn from
> > examples.
>
> Is it possible to create a fast-import from the index? I realize this
> is not the best thing to do, but for now I would like to do that.
No, fast-import uses its own internal structure and avoids the
index file.
Also, look at `git-hash-objects -w` as a replacement for your
git-write-raw tool if you aren't going to use git-fast-import.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 9:18 [RFC] mtn to git conversion script Felipe Contreras
2008-08-24 13:14 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-24 18:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-24 19:37 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-24 18:33 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-08-24 22:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-08-25 0:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-08-28 5:57 ` Anand Kumria
2008-08-28 9:03 ` [Monotone-devel] " Felipe Contreras
2008-09-04 9:43 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-09-04 10:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-04 13:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-09-04 10:50 ` Thomas Moschny
2008-09-04 13:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-08-25 16:35 ` Brian Downing
2008-08-25 16:41 ` Brian Downing
2008-08-25 20:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-08-25 21:09 ` Brian Downing
2008-08-28 7:11 ` Anand Kumria
2008-11-11 16:30 ` Juan Jose Comellas
2008-11-11 16:40 ` Juan Jose Comellas
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