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

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 18, 2007, 11:18 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0709181217200.28586@racer.site>
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<20070918103051.GA22239@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Hi,
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeff King wrote:
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> 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.

I guess these people are more comfortable with what you just described.

Ciao, Dscho

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