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Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix and extend encoding handling in fast export/import

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Apr 26, 2019, 21:32 UTC
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<20190426213241.GP6316@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 09:55:11AM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:51 AM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > While stress testing `git filter-repo`, I noticed an issue with
> > encoding; further digging led to the fixes and features in this series.
> > See the individual commit messages for details.
> 
> Whoops, forgot to cc Brian; I'm curious if my understanding is correct
> about the sha256sum transition plans that the intent in the short term
> is using fast-export & fast-import to transition to-and-from a
> sha256sum repo on the fly; if so, I believe that transition work
> should use the new --reencode=yes option in patch five.

The plan is to convert using fast-import and fast-export, yes, but on the fly, no. You'll convert your repository up front using fast-import and fast-export and then conversion will happen on the fly as needed internally. The latter is a thing I'm working on.

So individual users will want to use the --reencode option, but internally we probably won't get as far as actually decoding most of the commit object, so we'll keep the bytes in place.

I do appreciate the CC, though.
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
Previous: Elijah Newren
Message 13 of 13 in “Fix and extend encoding handling in fast export/import”
  1. 0/5 Fix and extend encoding handling in fast export/importElijah Newren, Apr 25, 2019
  2. 1/5 t9350: fix encoding test to actually test reencodingElijah Newren, Apr 25, 2019
  3. Eric SunshineApr 25, 2019
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2019
  5. 2/5 fast-import: support 'encoding' commit headerElijah Newren, Apr 25, 2019
  6. Eric SunshineApr 25, 2019
  7. Elijah NewrenApr 26, 2019
  8. 3/5 fast-export: avoid stripping encoding header if we cannot reencodeElijah Newren, Apr 25, 2019
  9. 5/5 fast-export: do automatic reencoding of commit messages only if requestedElijah Newren, Apr 25, 2019
  10. 4/5 fast-export: differentiate between explicitly utf-8 and implicitly utf-8Elijah Newren, Apr 25, 2019
  11. Elijah NewrenApr 25, 2019
  12. Elijah NewrenApr 25, 2019
  13. brian m. carlsonApr 26, 2019

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