From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:18:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709181217200.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070918103051.GA22239@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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.

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

Ciao,
Dscho