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Re: git-replay/git-history lose notes

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Aug 7, 2026, 09:49 UTC
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On 06/08/26 23:53, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> git filter-repo (and implicitly fast-export/fast-import) too, though
> that one's a slightly bigger can of worms.  (Trying to treat notes as
> the underlying commits they are represented as is a really poor way to
> export and import them; any filtering on the underlying commits will
> cause the notes that attach to them to just be lost since they will
> instead attach to the original commit.)
There are some workarounds for filter-repo, IIRC they work _okay_.
https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/22#issuecomment-1834041470
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