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

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Sep 18, 2007, 11:28 UTC
Message-ID: <46EFB65B.6030202@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709181217200.28586@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> 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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