On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Antoine Pelisse <apeli...@gmail.com> wrote: > fast-export can fail because of some pruned-reference when importing a > mark file. > > The problem happens in the following scenario: > > $ git fast-export --export-marks=MARKS master > (rewrite master) > $ git prune > $ git fast-export --import-marks=MARKS master > > This might fail if some references have been removed by prune > because some marks will refer to no longer existing commits. > git-fast-export will not need these objects anyway as they were no > longer reachable. > > We still need to update last_numid so we don't change the mapping > between marks and objects for remote-helpers. > Unfortunately, the mark file should not be rewritten without lost marks > if no new objects has been exported, as we could lose track of the last > last_numid.
Makes sense to me. Reviewed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
