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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:17:15 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > Maybe somebody will then grab the low-hanging fruit of writing a 
> > "git-fast-export", which can be used to dump a complete repository in 
> > text format?
> 
> I thought that was already taken care of since format-patch handles
> --root flag properly?

Umm.  Probably you forgot about merge commits, right?  And about more than 
one branch?

> Otherwise, "git repack -a --window=0 --depth=0" should provide an easily 
> parseable dump of an entire repo.

This is not a dump.  It is a log.

Ciao,
Dscho