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> Hi Peff,
>
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> The "master" branch is special in fast-export in that we don't anonymize
>> it. And the reason is that it helps to have some known reference point
>> between the original and anonymized repo, so you can find the same
>> commits.
>>
>> This series gives an alternate way to achieve the same effect, but much
>> better in that it works for _any_ ref (so if you are trying to reproduce
>> the effect of "rev-list origin/foo..bar" in the anonymized repo, you can
>> easily do so). Ditto for paths, so that "rev-list -- foo.c" can be
>> reproduced in the anonymized repo.
>>
>> And then we can drop the specialness of "master", which in turn is one
>> less thing to worry about in Dscho's series to make the default branch
>> configurable.
>
> Thank you for working on this!
>
> I don't have any suggestions on top of Eric's and Junio's.
>
> I'll drop the `fast-export` patches from the next round of my patch
> series.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>