Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > This program dumps (parts of) a git repository in the format that > fast-import understands. ... > +------------------------------------------------------------------- > +$ git fast-export --all | (cd /empty/repository && git fast-import) > +------------------------------------------------------------------- > + > +This will export the whole repository and import it into the existing > +empty repository. Except for reencoding commits that are not in > +UTF-8, it would be a one-to-one mirror. WTF? Why are you reencoding the commits on output in fast-export? Why aren't you dumping them raw to the stream? fast-import takes them raw. Oh, it doesn't have a way to set the encoding header. DOH. I think this should be prefixed by fast-import patch to teach it something like "encoding N" as a subcommand of commit, so that you can feed data in a non UTF-8 encoding and get it to include the proper encoding header in the commit object it creates. That way a pipeline like the above really does create a duplicate repository, with the same commit SHA-1s, even if the commits weren't in UTF-8. -- Shawn. - 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
