On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:16:05AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Of course that only helps you for _one_ branch. A more generally useful > > mechanism would be to teach fast-export to write the ref mapping (and > > perhaps file mappings, etc) to a separate file. Then you could convert > > any reproduction recipe to use the anonymized names, and share only that > > recipe along with the anonymized dump. But that's _way_ outside the > > scope of your series. This seems like a good interim step to retain the > > status quo. > > Actually, dropping this special case, and dropping the other special > case with fmt-merge-msg, we can do without the notion of the > "primary" branch. That leaves us in the interim with a "fast-export --anonymize" that is a little harder to use (you have no way to know which branch was which). But I don't mind at all implementing the map-dumping feature to help move this along. As long as both make it into the same release, then fast-export only gets better, and never regresses. :) -Peff
