Re: Malformed branch name in fast-export when specifying non-HEAD/branch revision

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 03:29:38PM -0700, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> > Yes, this was the conclusion I came to when I looked at this a month or
> > so ago. You really need to give fast-export a mapping of objects to
> > refnames, and it should output ref names _only_ for the mapping. That
> > would handle this "not a ref" case, but would also let you push
> > "refs/heads/foo" when it is equivalent to "refs/heads/master", without
> > fast-export mentioning "refs/heads/master" at all.
> 
> Does this bring any new insights into how the problem I was pointing
> out (trying to push next if master points at the same commit does
> nothing) could/should be solved?

Hmm. Maybe I am misremembering the problem, but I thought that worked
already. If you say:

  git fast-export refs/heads/foo

you should get only reset/commit lines in the output for refs/heads/foo,
no?

Now I can't seem to replicate the case where refs/heads/master is
mentioned, but you didn't want it to be. I may have to go back and
re-read the thread from a month or two ago when we discussed these
issues.

-Peff