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From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mtn to git conversion script
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:33:54 +0300
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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.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras