On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 07:06:26PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > > 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). > > Why does fast-export special case on "master" rather than on HEAD? > Isn't it more relevant to know the active branch than what _might_ > have been the initial branch? It kind of feels like a bug to me that > HEAD isn't the special case construct. I don't really remember my exact thought at the time, but it was probably along the lines of: "master" is special not because it's inherently special, but because revealing it doesn't compromise the anonymity, since it's not a user-selected name. That's not true of other names we might see in HEAD. But if we're turning it into "ref0" or some other special name anyway, then we haven't revealed anything. That said, I still lean towards just being able to dump the whole mapping by request. That solves this problem and many more. -Peff
