On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 04:38:17PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
> I just tried to created an anonymized repo to allow the list to
> reproduce a bug in "rebase -i" I discovered in Git 2.13 for Linux
> (Windows is not affected). However, in order to reproduce the bug it's
> important to keep the "fixup!" prefixes as part of the commit
> messages. Unfortunately, "fast-export --anonymize" does not maintain
> these (or any other command prefixes in commit messages). Given that
> the --anonymize option is explicitly designed to help reproducing
> bugs, I consider this to be a bug in the --anonymize option itself.
Yes, it probably should handle those prefixes.
I don't know if I'd call it a bug. Maybe a missing feature. :)
My plan when implementing "--anonymize" was to err on the side of
simplicity and dropping information, since the most important function
is not revealing anonymized data. And then we could add back in useful
bits of data as they were determined to be useful and harmless.
So this seems like a good example of that. I think I'd prefer to see us
add in known prefixes like "fixup!" and "squash!" then try to guess what
other prefixes might be OK. I don't know of any other command prefixes
besides those two, so maybe that's all you were suggesting.
It shouldn't be too hard to add. You'd probably need to make two
adjustments to anonymize_commit_message():
1. Teach it to store the mapping of anonymized messages, using
anonymize_mem().
2. Parse "fixup! <msg>" and just anonymize_mem() the second half. I
think technically this wouldn't handle a fixup-of-fixup, but I
don't think rebase handles recursive ones anyway.
-Peff