Re: [alternative 0/10] fast-export: allow seeding the anonymized mapping

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 05:47:46PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Here's a v2 which I think addresses all of the comments. I have to admit
>> that after writing my last email to Junio, I am wondering whether it
>> would be sufficient and simpler to let the user specify a static mapping
>> of tokens (that could just be applied anywhere).

Yeah, dumping the random mapping created and telling the user to
figure out what the tool did is less nice than allowing the user
to enumerate what tokens are sensitible and need to be replaced.

> Both of these techniques _could_ live side-by-side within fast-export,
> as they have slightly different strengths and weaknesses. But I'd prefer
> to just go with one (this one) in the name of simplicity, and I strongly
> suspect nobody will ever ask for the other.

OK.  So should we revert the merge of the other one into 'next'?
That is easy enough ;-)

Thanks.

>   [01/10]: t9351: derive anonymized tree checks from original repo
>   [02/10]: fast-export: use xmemdupz() for anonymizing oids
>
>     These first two are actually a bug-fix that I noticed while writing
>     it.
>
>   [03/10]: fast-export: store anonymized oids as hex strings
>   [04/10]: fast-export: tighten anonymize_mem() interface to handle only strings
>   [05/10]: fast-export: stop storing lengths in anonymized hashmaps
>   [06/10]: fast-export: use a flex array to store anonymized entries
>   [07/10]: fast-export: move global "idents" anonymize hashmap into function
>   [08/10]: fast-export: add a "data" callback parameter to anonymize_str()
>
>     This is all cleanup and prep. More than is strictly necessary for
>     this series, but it does simplify things and reduce the memory
>     footprint (only a few megabytes in git.git, but more in larger
>     repos).
>
>   [09/10]: fast-export: allow seeding the anonymized mapping
>
>     And then this is the actual feature...
>
>   [10/10]: fast-export: anonymize "master" refname
>
>     ...which finally lets us drop the special name rule.
>
>  Documentation/git-fast-export.txt |  24 +++++
>  builtin/fast-export.c             | 161 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  t/t9351-fast-export-anonymize.sh  |  54 +++++++---
>  3 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)