This series fixes a few issues with parsing in fast-import, dating back to git-2.6.0. The only change since v1 is removing the RFC label; sadly, no one commented on the first round. Text from my original submission: The point behind this series is that fast-import somehow mishandled get-mark directives after empty orphan commits. Digging into it, I think it was caused by following a precedent set by a somewhat unsafe implementation of trying to allow cat-blob directives to appear in the middle of a commit. My spelunking showed the following commits seemed to be the most relevant as to how we got to the current state: 777f80d7429b ("fast-import: Allow cat-blob requests at arbitrary points in stream", 2010-11-28) 8dc6a373d201 ("fast-import: add 'ls' command", 2010-12-02) 97313bef2a16 ("fast-import: use skip_prefix for parsing input", 2014-06-18) 28c7b1f7b7b7 ("fast-import: add a get-mark command", 2015-07-01) I have a few patches that fix the issue and I think make the parser more robust against future issues in a way that I think is safe enough for backward compatibility, but "backward compatible enough" might concern some folks; if so, please take a look at patches 4 and 5. Elijah Newren (5): t9300: demonstrate bug with get-mark and empty orphan commits git-fast-import.txt: fix wording about where ls command can appear fast-import: check most prominent commands first fast-import: only allow cat-blob requests where it makes sense fast-import: fix erroneous handling of get-mark with empty orphan commits Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 22 +++++++++--------- fast-import.c | 31 ++++++++++++++------------ t/t9300-fast-import.sh | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) -- 2.21.0.1.g0a561c1dbd