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[PATCH 09/10] fast-export: add a --show-original-ids option to show original names

From
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2018, 06:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20181111062312.16342-10-newren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20181111062312.16342-1-newren@gmail.com>

Knowing the original names (hashes) of commits, blobs, and tags can sometimes enable post-filtering that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. In particular, the desire to rewrite commit messages which refer to other prior commits (on top of whatever other filtering is being done) is very difficult without knowing the original names of each commit.

This commit teaches a new --show-original-ids option to fast-export which will make it add a 'originally <hash>' line to blob, commits, and tags. It also teaches fast-import to parse (and ignore) such lines.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-fast-export.txt |  7 +++++++
 builtin/fast-export.c             | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 fast-import.c                     | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 t/t9350-fast-export.sh            | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index 2916096bdd..4e40f0b99a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ marks the same across runs.
 	used by a repository which already contains the necessary
 	parent commits.
 
+--show-original-ids::
+	Add an extra directive to the output for commits and blobs,
+	`originally <SHA1SUM>`.  While such directives will likely be
+	ignored by importers such as git-fast-import, it may be useful
+	for intermediary filters (e.g. for rewriting commit messages
+	which refer to older commits, or for stripping blobs by id).
+
 --refspec::
 	Apply the specified refspec to each ref exported. Multiple of them can
 	be specified.
diff --git a/builtin/fast-export.c b/builtin/fast-export.c
index ea9c5b1c00..cc01dcc90c 100644
--- a/builtin/fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static int use_done_feature;
 static int no_data;
 static int full_tree;
 static int reference_excluded_commits;
+static int show_original_ids;
 static struct string_list extra_refs = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
 static struct string_list tag_refs = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
 static struct refspec refspecs = REFSPEC_INIT_FETCH;
@@ -271,7 +272,10 @@ static void export_blob(const struct object_id *oid)
 
 	mark_next_object(object);
 
-	printf("blob\nmark :%"PRIu32"\ndata %lu\n", last_idnum, size);
+	printf("blob\nmark :%"PRIu32"\n", last_idnum);
+	if (show_original_ids)
+		printf("originally %s\n", oid_to_hex(oid));
+	printf("data %lu\n", size);
 	if (size && fwrite(buf, size, 1, stdout) != 1)
 		die_errno("could not write blob '%s'", oid_to_hex(oid));
 	printf("\n");
@@ -628,8 +632,10 @@ static void handle_commit(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *rev,
 		reencoded = reencode_string(message, "UTF-8", encoding);
 	if (!commit->parents)
 		printf("reset %s\n", refname);
-	printf("commit %s\nmark :%"PRIu32"\n%.*s\n%.*s\ndata %u\n%s",
-	       refname, last_idnum,
+	printf("commit %s\nmark :%"PRIu32"\n", refname, last_idnum);
+	if (show_original_ids)
+		printf("originally %s\n", oid_to_hex(&commit->object.oid));
+	printf("%.*s\n%.*s\ndata %u\n%s",
 	       (int)(author_end - author), author,
 	       (int)(committer_end - committer), committer,
 	       (unsigned)(reencoded
@@ -807,8 +813,10 @@ static void handle_tag(const char *name, struct tag *tag)
 
 	if (starts_with(name, "refs/tags/"))
 		name += 10;
-	printf("tag %s\nfrom :%d\n%.*s%sdata %d\n%.*s\n",
-	       name, tagged_mark,
+	printf("tag %s\nfrom :%d\n", name, tagged_mark);
+	if (show_original_ids)
+		printf("originally %s\n", oid_to_hex(&tag->object.oid));
+	printf("%.*s%sdata %d\n%.*s\n",
 	       (int)(tagger_end - tagger), tagger,
 	       tagger == tagger_end ? "" : "\n",
 	       (int)message_size, (int)message_size, message ? message : "");
@@ -1089,6 +1097,8 @@ int cmd_fast_export(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "anonymize", &anonymize, N_("anonymize output")),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "reference-excluded-parents",
 			 &reference_excluded_commits, N_("Reference parents which are not in fast-export stream by sha1sum")),
+		OPT_BOOL(0, "show-original-ids", &show_original_ids,
+			    N_("Show original sha1sums of blobs/commits")),
 
 		OPT_END()
 	};
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index 95600c78e0..232b6a8b8d 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ Format of STDIN stream:
 
   new_blob ::= 'blob' lf
     mark?
+    originally?
     file_content;
   file_content ::= data;
 
   new_commit ::= 'commit' sp ref_str lf
     mark?
+    originally?
     ('author' (sp name)? sp '<' email '>' sp when lf)?
     'committer' (sp name)? sp '<' email '>' sp when lf
     commit_msg
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@ Format of STDIN stream:
 
   new_tag ::= 'tag' sp tag_str lf
     'from' sp commit-ish lf
+    originally?
     ('tagger' (sp name)? sp '<' email '>' sp when lf)?
     tag_msg;
   tag_msg ::= data;
@@ -73,6 +76,8 @@ Format of STDIN stream:
   data ::= (delimited_data | exact_data)
     lf?;
 
+  originally ::= 'originally' sp not_lf+ lf
+
     # note: delim may be any string but must not contain lf.
     # data_line may contain any data but must not be exactly
     # delim.
@@ -1968,6 +1973,13 @@ static void parse_mark(void)
 		next_mark = 0;
 }
 
+static void parse_original_identifier(void)
+{
+	const char *v;
+	if (skip_prefix(command_buf.buf, "originally ", &v))
+		read_next_command();
+}
+
 static int parse_data(struct strbuf *sb, uintmax_t limit, uintmax_t *len_res)
 {
 	const char *data;
@@ -2110,6 +2122,7 @@ static void parse_new_blob(void)
 {
 	read_next_command();
 	parse_mark();
+	parse_original_identifier();
 	parse_and_store_blob(&last_blob, NULL, next_mark);
 }
 
@@ -2733,6 +2746,7 @@ static void parse_new_commit(const char *arg)
 
 	read_next_command();
 	parse_mark();
+	parse_original_identifier();
 	if (skip_prefix(command_buf.buf, "author ", &v)) {
 		author = parse_ident(v);
 		read_next_command();
@@ -2865,6 +2879,9 @@ static void parse_new_tag(const char *arg)
 		die("Invalid ref name or SHA1 expression: %s", from);
 	read_next_command();
 
+	/* originally ... */
+	parse_original_identifier();
+
 	/* tagger ... */
 	if (skip_prefix(command_buf.buf, "tagger ", &v)) {
 		tagger = parse_ident(v);
diff --git a/t/t9350-fast-export.sh b/t/t9350-fast-export.sh
index c2f40d6a40..5ad6669910 100755
--- a/t/t9350-fast-export.sh
+++ b/t/t9350-fast-export.sh
@@ -77,6 +77,23 @@ test_expect_success 'fast-export --reference-excluded-parents master~2..master'
 		 test $MASTER = $(git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/rewrite))
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'fast-export --show-original-ids' '
+
+	git fast-export --show-original-ids master >output &&
+	grep ^originally output| sed -e s/^originally.// | sort >actual &&
+	git rev-list --objects master muss >objects-and-names &&
+	awk "{print \$1}" objects-and-names | sort >commits-trees-blobs &&
+	comm -23 actual commits-trees-blobs >unfound &&
+	test_must_be_empty unfound
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'fast-export --show-original-ids | git fast-import' '
+
+	git fast-export --show-original-ids master muss | git fast-import --quiet &&
+	test $MASTER = $(git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/master) &&
+	test $MUSS = $(git rev-parse --verify refs/tags/muss)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'iso-8859-1' '
 
 	git config i18n.commitencoding ISO8859-1 &&
-- 
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  60. 11/11 fast-export: add --always-show-modify-after-renameElijah Newren, Nov 14, 2018
  61. 01/11 git-fast-import.txt: fix documentation for --quiet optionElijah Newren, Nov 14, 2018
  62. 10/11 fast-export: add a --show-original-ids option to show original namesElijah Newren, Nov 14, 2018
  63. 05/11 fast-export: move commit rewriting logic into a function for reuseElijah Newren, Nov 14, 2018
  64. 09/11 fast-import: remove unmaintained duplicate documentationElijah Newren, Nov 14, 2018
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  74. Jeff KingNov 14, 2018
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  76. 03/11 git-fast-export.txt: clarify misleading documentation about rev-list argsElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  77. 07/11 fast-export: when using paths, avoid corrupt stream with non-existent markElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  78. 01/11 fast-export: convert sha1 to oidElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  79. 02/11 git-fast-import.txt: fix documentation for --quiet optionElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  80. 08/11 fast-export: ensure we export requested refsElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  81. 09/11 fast-export: add --reference-excluded-parents optionElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  82. 10/11 fast-import: remove unmaintained duplicate documentationElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  83. 06/11 fast-export: move commit rewriting logic into a function for reuseElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
  84. 11/11 fast-export: add a --show-original-ids option to show original namesElijah Newren, Nov 16, 2018
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