Re: Memory issue with fast-import, why track branches?

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM, John Chapman <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:
> My first response was along the lines of "Why the heck are you storing
> sha1's like that!?", until I realised that you're not storing actual git
> sha1's, but mtn's hashes, which does make sense.

Yes :)

> I'm doing something very similar with my perforce scripts, however I am
> doing a bit more magic instead of making so many branches.
>
> Instead of making branches, I make a tag instead, for each and every
> changeset.  Every time I make a new git commit, if I need to do it from
> a tag, I first read the tag and determine the sha1 I should use, and use
> that instead.

Well, simple tags and branches are exactly the same thing: refs. tags
are in 'refs/tags' and branches in 'refs/heads'; 'refs/mtn' are not
really branches.

> Alternatively, you could choose to manage your mapping yourself, and
> write them to a .git/mtg-git-map file.

The advantage of my approach is that the git tools handle all the mtn
sha1's almost as good as git sha1's, I just need to prepend 'mtn/'.

Also, git name-rev finds the mtn revision of a git commit. It' all so
convenient.

The only problem is that fast-import seems to be doing something wrong
with those "branches".

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Felipe Contreras