# HG changeset patch
# User Chris Cannam
# Date 1452619974 0
# Node ID 28cde511f31295397089f54a29d420fc479cf552
# Parent  fd4cc11ae096f46e4b5426dfbbd2a9a378ae2dd8
Force flag is needed here

diff -r fd4cc11ae096 -r 28cde511f312 extra/soundsoftware/export-git.sh
--- a/extra/soundsoftware/export-git.sh	Tue Jan 12 17:32:31 2016 +0000
+++ b/extra/soundsoftware/export-git.sh	Tue Jan 12 17:32:54 2016 +0000
@@ -82,7 +82,14 @@
     
     (
 	cd "$gitrepo"
-	"$fastexport" --quiet -r "$hgrepo" -A "$authormap" --hg-hash
+
+        # Force is necessary because git-fast-import (or git) can't handle
+        # branches having more than one head ("Error: repository has at
+        # least one unnamed head"), which happens from time to time in
+        # valid Hg repos. With --force apparently it will just pick one
+        # of the two heads arbitrarily, which is also alarming but is
+        # more likely to be useful 
+	"$fastexport" --quiet -r "$hgrepo" -A "$authormap" --hg-hash --force
     )
 
     echo "Fast export done"