The commands should be self explanatory. 0.2.0~20 is the first commit where the reconstructed repository diverges, that commit had a simultaneous copy and edit of one file. It seems that copy/rename detection, enabled with -M -C is confused by this. I reproduced it with git 2.14 next @ 8fa685d. git clone https://github.com/googlecartographer/cartographer_ros mkdir copy && cd copy && git init (cd ../cartographer_ros; git fast-export --all --date-order -M -C) | git fast-import git rev-parse 0.2.0~20 #2237e1d0a974977fbcb0737dd1fb5876a2b8e29d git rev-parse 0.2.0~21 #cd1276a99ccffcc491d0b2e50296ec04347ba5f2 cd ../cartographer_ros git rev-parse 0.2.0~20 #9d5b221ed41783b15c84bc90b71527194b8d9a49 git rev-parse 0.2.0~21 #cd1276a99ccffcc491d0b2e50296ec04347ba5f2
