On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> --- a/builtin/fast-export.c
>> +++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
>> @@ -523,11 +523,16 @@ static void get_tags_and_duplicates(struct object_array *pending,
>> typename(e->item->type));
>> continue;
>> }
>> - if (commit->util) {
>> - /* more than one name for the same object */
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * This ref will not be updated through a commit, lets make
>> + * sure it gets properly upddated eventually.
>> + */
>> + if (commit->util || commit->object.flags & SHOWN) {
>> if (!(commit->object.flags & UNINTERESTING))
>> string_list_append(extra_refs, full_name)->util = commit;
>> - } else
>> + }
>> + if (!commit->util)
>> commit->util = full_name;
>
> Here's an explanation of why the above makes sense to me.
>
> get_tags_and_duplicates() gets called after the marks import and
> before the revision walk. It walks through the revs from the
> commandline and for each one:
>
> - peels it to a refname, and then to a commit
> - stores the refname so fast-export knows what arg to pass to
> the "commit" command during the revision walk
> - if it already had a refname stored, instead adds the
> (refname, commit) pair to the extra_refs list, so fast-export
> knows to add a "reset" command later.
>
> If the commit already has the SHOWN flag set because it was pointed to
> by a mark, it is not going to come up in the revision walk, so it will
> not be mentioned in the output stream unless it is added to
> extra_refs. That's what this patch does.
>
> Incidentally, the change from "else" to "if (!commit->util)" is
> unnecessary because if a commit is already SHOWN then it will not be
> encountered in the revision walk so commit->util does not need to be
> set.
>
> If the commit does not have the SHOWN or UNINTERESTING flag set but it
> is going to get the UNINTERESTING flag set during the walk because of
> a negative commit listed on the command line, this patch won't help.
Thanks for the thorough explanation. Perhaps some of that could make
it's way into the commit message?
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
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