Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeff King wrote:
I think he means a dump that you can meaningfully edit with sed or a
text editor. And even nicer, one that could be fed back into
git-fast-import. So you could do something like:
git-fast-export A..B >dump
vi dump
git-fast-import <dump
to rewrite history in a very flexible way.
Exactly what I meant. Some people seem to have problems with
filter-branch, but somehow no proper bug report, let alone fix, evolved
from that.
The main problem is that it in my use-cases fixes a nuisance, but not a
real problem, while the man-page SYNOPSIS consists of a full 5 lines, most
of which are far from obvious at a first glance. The seeming effort involved
just doesn't seem worth bothering with.
I guess these people are more comfortable with what you just described.
I know I would be, especially since all changes would show up in an entirely
different repo. I know filter-branch is probably completely safe, but even a
0.1% risk of losing *anything* isn't worth taking to fix a small nuisance.
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