Hi, Vitor Antunes wrote: > Is it possible to change the parent of a commit during fast import? > I've tried using "reset" command and making a new commit pointing to a > new parent, but in both cases I get a "new tip ... does not contain > ..." error message. Have you tried "git fast-import --force"? > Providing a bit of context. I'm trying to improve git-p4 to detect the > parent commit of a new branch. [...] > To achieve this I used the checkpoint command to flush the list of > imported commits to disk and then used standard rev-list and diff-tree > commands to make find the parent commit. I am now at a point where I > am able to correctly identify the parent commit, but when trying to > update the from information I get the above message. The advice in the section "Use Tag Fixup Branches" of git-fast-import(1) might be useful. Thanks for an interesting example, and hope that helps. Jonathan -- 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