Re: [PATCH 3/3] fast-export: allow dumping the path mapping

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2020, 19:24 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqr1uahn9t.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200619132923.GA2540897@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> When working with an anonymized repo, it can be useful to be able to
> refer to particular paths. E.g., reproducing a bug with "git rev-list --
> foo.c" in the original repo would need to replace "foo.c" with its
> anonymized counterpart to produce the same effect.

That would not work with "git rev-list -- 'foo*'", where there is no counterpart, no?

It almost feels as if we want a separate knob to disable anonymization for paths and perhaps refs while still anonymizing the blob contents, or something like that.

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