I've been writing an importer for a one-off version control system, so I can import from that version control into git. So far, I'm pretty pleased with the results, but I'm running into problems with incremental updates. I have to be able to continually pull updates (as the one-off system is still in use), so being able to grab only the "new" commits is important. My importer is able to grab just the "new" commit information, and write it to a file that 'git fast-import' can read. However, I'm running into the following problem: warning: Not updating refs/heads/foo (new tip aae6a85831127a2b5bef957af81f2b127d98ee6c does not contain 486cb1a4f683da43a72932b3e40c3999bcf3728b)stout6 Which I took to mean that as my commit didn't have the previous commit, it was failing. So I modified my importer so that it would include the "last" known commit (to git), and then had everything new. I received the same error (with different SHA1s, as I recall...) When I was looking at the man page for git-fast-import (and looking at the output of git-fast-export for a valid git repo), I noted the "from" directive. There's a clip there that tells me that "Omitting the from command on existing branches is usually desired, as the current commit on that branch is automatically assumed to be the first ancestor of the new commit." I double-checked, and the first commit in the files I'm generating (for incremental updates, at least) does not have the 'from' directive. So what do I need to do in order to get git to attach the incremental update I have to the existing repository? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html