From: erik88 <erik88@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:49:35 GMT
Subject: Re: git-replay/git-history lose notes
Message-ID: <anWpt6rzws0yYdFH@vader>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHbWKr5tv9ApH8ZagJkY39XZgQbLoFrmQJfU71z1y6_xw@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/08/26 23:53, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 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