From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: git-fast-import Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:38:10 +0000 Message-ID: <1170855490.29759.1155.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <20070206023111.GB9222@spearce.org> <45C81C33.6010704@gmail.com> <20070206061817.GB10508@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Barkalow X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 07 14:38:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HEn06-0007EO-I5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:38:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161296AbXBGNiP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:38:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161297AbXBGNiP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:38:15 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40912 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161296AbXBGNiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:38:14 -0500 Received: from pmac.infradead.org ([81.187.2.168]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HEmzz-0007Qj-Gd; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:38:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6.dwmw2.1) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 23:55 -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > It might be nice to have a git-fast-export, which could actually be > potentially useful for generating a repository with systematic differences > from the original. (E.g., to make a repository of git's Documentation > directory, with just the commits that affect it) That kind of thing isn't hard to do. See the scripts which create the 'JFFS2 for eCos' git tree or the 'exported kernel headers' git tree, directly from Linus' git tree. -- dwmw2