Re: [PATCH 8/9] fast-export: respect the possibly-overridden default branch name

> I think this is fine because it only reveals the name of your particular
> choice of default branch.  The goal of the --anonymize option is to
> allow people to maintain the structure of their repositories while
> stripping private information from them, primarily for debugging
> purposes (e.g., providing to us for troubleshooting).
>
> The things people want to prevent exposing are their code, data, project
> names, user names, etc.: that is, anything identifying, privileged, or
> private.  The default branch name isn't any of those things; we know you
> have one, and for troubleshooting purposes, we aren't that interested in
> what you called it.  You've almost certainly picked it out of a set of
> one of 20 words that people use for this purpose, none of which are
> private, and all of which are shared by millions of other repositories.
>

> In the extremely unlikely case that it does matter, invoking git with
> something like "-c default.branch=$(git hash-object /dev/null)" would be
> sufficient to anonymize all branches.
>
> I should point out that people frequently ask for the output of "git
> config -l" for troubleshooting, and most people wouldn't consider their
> default branch name to be worth sanitizing there.