Hi, On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Karl Hasselström wrote: > On 2007-02-06 23:55:46 -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) > > Or to solve problems like > > Gaaah! This file we've had in the repository for the last 17 months > has copyright problems and we can't distribute it! > > or > > Wouldn't it be nice to permanently include all that old Linux > history that's currently grafted onto the "real" history? > > In other words, general history rewriting, but fast. For this, it would be better to use a different approach: fast-import still hashes all the objects, which would not be necessary when rewriting. I guess that is what cogito's tool is doing. Ciao, Dscho