Subject: Re: Getting a commit sha1 from fast-import in a remote-helper

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:36:34 -0800

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:27:59AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 06:21:22PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> IIRC then 'M 040000' wants a tree object, not a commit object, so
>> you'd have to do
>>
>> 	ls <commit> ""
>> 	M 040000 <tree> ""
>
> That's what I'm planning to try ; Would doing:
> M 040000 <tree> ""
> M 0644 <blob> some/path
> D other/path
>
> work?

Yes, that should work fine.  That's how contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.c deals
with 'Node-copyfrom-rev' in Subversion dumpfiles, for what it's worth.