From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:57:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach fast-export an --anonymize option
Message-ID: <xmqqiollqzel.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140821070130.GA15930@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> +--anonymize::
> +	Replace all paths, blob contents, commit and tag messages,
> +	names, and email addresses in the output with anonymized data,
> +	while still retaining the shape of history and of the stored
> +	tree.

Sometimes branch names can contain codenames the project may prefer
to hide from the general public, so they may need to be anonymised
as well.