Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 18, 2007, 10:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20070918103051.GA22239@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <46EFA84C.3080906@op5.se>

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:28:28PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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>> Yes, please!  Maybe somebody will then grab the low-hanging fruit of 
>> writing a "git-fast-export", which can be used to dump a complete 
>> repository in text format?
>
> I thought that was already taken care of since format-patch handles
> --root flag properly?
>
> Otherwise, "git repack -a --window=0 --depth=0" should provide an
> easily parseable dump of an entire repo.

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.

-Peff