Re: Git fast-import file format question

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Troy Telford <ttelford.groups@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I was looking at the man page for git-fast-import (and looking at
> the output of git-fast-export for a valid git repo), I noted the
> "from" directive.  There's a clip there that tells me that "Omitting
> the from command on existing branches is usually desired, as the
> current commit on that branch is automatically assumed to be the first
> ancestor of the new commit."

That section meant "existing branches within this import session".

To restart an import, you need to use the from command in the
first commit of that session, e.g. to restart an import on
refs/heads/master use:

  from refs/heads/master^0

-- 
Shawn.