> My initial guess is, you don't have what > you think you have. Thanks for the tip - you're right in that I don't have what I think I have. Namely, there are entire sections of the dump file that aren't getting imported. fast-import isn't complaining about it either. commit refs/heads/foo <various metadata> M 100644 :mark path/to/some/file Isn't getting imported (to any branch, let alone refs/heads/foo) So when the later commit wants to rename the file, it can't be found. Digging a bit deeper, I found a few cases where I'd have something along the lines of: commit refs/heads/foo mark :1 <etc, etc.> commit refs/heads/foo mark :2 from :1 <etc, etc> ie. two sequential commits, to the same branch. The first commit is being imported; the second commit isn't being imported. Many subsequent commits are similarly cast aside - then for no reason I can tell, commits start getting imported again. I'd expect fast-import to complain, but that doesn't seem to be happening. -- 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