From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Ilya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Subject: Re: Does git fast-import support deltas?
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:13:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130419061323.GB5055@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095757971.20130419092931@gmail.com>
Hi Ilya,
Ilya Basin wrote:
> 1) a created a git repo from a foreign source using git fast-import
> 2) new commits were added to the foreign source
>
> Can I create a fast-import input stream not containing the commits
> already existing in my git repo and import it?
Yes, if the foreign source is structured in a way to make it easy.
Take a look at the --cat-blob-fd option, the "ls" and "cat-blob"
commands, and see svn-fe from contrib/svn-fe/ as an example.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-19 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-14 8:18 cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc Ilya Basin
2013-04-14 8:48 ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-14 9:47 ` John Keeping
2013-04-14 11:33 ` State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-15 5:00 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-15 17:58 ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-15 20:43 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-04-18 9:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-19 5:29 ` Does git fast-import support deltas? Ilya Basin
2013-04-19 5:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-19 6:13 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-04-20 10:22 ` Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 17:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-23 18:30 ` Re[2]: " Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 21:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-24 4:47 ` Re[2]: " Ilya Basin
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