Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi Peff, > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Jeff King wrote: > >> The "master" branch is special in fast-export in that we don't anonymize >> it. And the reason is that it helps to have some known reference point >> between the original and anonymized repo, so you can find the same >> commits. >> >> This series gives an alternate way to achieve the same effect, but much >> better in that it works for _any_ ref (so if you are trying to reproduce >> the effect of "rev-list origin/foo..bar" in the anonymized repo, you can >> easily do so). Ditto for paths, so that "rev-list -- foo.c" can be >> reproduced in the anonymized repo. >> >> And then we can drop the specialness of "master", which in turn is one >> less thing to worry about in Dscho's series to make the default branch >> configurable. > > Thank you for working on this! > > I don't have any suggestions on top of Eric's and Junio's. > > I'll drop the `fast-export` patches from the next round of my patch > series. Understood. Thanks, all.
