Re: All I wanted was git-fast-export

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> With your kind help, I've been able to convert a cvs repository to 
>>>> git, but the last several years commits start with a line saying 
>>>> "Summary;" :-( I thought it might not be hard to put a filter 
>>>> between git-fast-export and git-fast-import to sort it out.
>>> The better tool for this should be filter-branch.
>> filter-branch does look to be brilliant for this sort of thing,
>> but I don't think I can use it in my case.
> 
> I beg to differ.  filter-branch does exactly the same as the fast-export | 
> filter | fast-import you prosed does: it rewrites history.
> 
> The thing is, filter-branch was _written for this purpose_.  So if you 
> know what commit you rewrote last, you can make the process faster/safer 
> by issuing
> 
> 	$ git filter-branch --msg-filter="<blabla>" <old-commit>..master

> There's also a further upside to filter-branch: at least until recently, 
> it did not use any special features of newer git, but could be extracted 
> (e.g. via gitweb) and used with older git (any git >= 1.5.3 should do, 
> maybe even older ones).
> 
> Hth,
> Dscho
> 
> P.S.: but you seem to be dead-set to upgrade.  No problem for me: just go 
> ahead and do what you must.