From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:17:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fast-import
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071216330.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070207091351.GA1632@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Karl Hasselström wrote:

> On 2007-02-06 23:55:46 -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> > It might be nice to have a git-fast-export, which could actually be
> > potentially useful for generating a repository with systematic
> > differences from the original. (E.g., to make a repository of git's
> > Documentation directory, with just the commits that affect it)
> 
> Or to solve problems like
> 
>   Gaaah! This file we've had in the repository for the last 17 months
>   has copyright problems and we can't distribute it!
> 
> or
> 
>   Wouldn't it be nice to permanently include all that old Linux
>   history that's currently grafted onto the "real" history?
> 
> In other words, general history rewriting, but fast.

For this, it would be better to use a different approach: fast-import 
still hashes all the objects, which would not be necessary when rewriting. 
I guess that is what cogito's tool is doing.

Ciao,
Dscho