TIL about the git fast-import textual format!

[filippo@abyssdomain.expert]

TIL about the git fast-import textual format!

Lets me write tests for the c2sp.org redirector against a synthetic git repository I can easily edit, and even gives me stable shorthands to refer to commits.

https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/commit/99d43ad2adcddb85acf37028be45590cd78008c3

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@filippo oh that's really useful

[eta@gotosocial.i.eta.st]

@filippo I remember reading about it in the Pro Git book, which even had a little tutorial about how to use it to import data from some non-git VCS you might have used before; it's a very cute feature!