On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 22:06 -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > James, Ian -- to give you the short backstory we are talking about > creating a new branch _without_ a "from", but instead using a single > "merge" to specify the sole ancestor revision of a new commit to > be placed on the new branch. This allows the frontend to supply > all files for the tree as none were inherited from the sole ancestor. > > The other (more obvious?) approach to accomplish the same result > is to use "from" followed by a "filedeleteall" to clear the files, > then supply the new files. Both approaches have the exact same > result in git-fast-import. > I don't see why this would cause a fundamental problem for bzr-fastimport, and shouldn't be difficult to implement, so I'm happy for you to proceed however you like. Thanks, James -- 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
