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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:30:51 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:28:28PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

>> Yes, please!  Maybe somebody will then grab the low-hanging fruit of 
>> writing a "git-fast-export", which can be used to dump a complete 
>> repository in text format?
>
> I thought that was already taken care of since format-patch handles
> --root flag properly?
>
> Otherwise, "git repack -a --window=0 --depth=0" should provide an
> easily parseable dump of an entire repo.

I think he means a dump that you can meaningfully edit with sed or a
text editor. And even nicer, one that could be fed back into
git-fast-import. So you could do something like:

git-fast-export A..B >dump
vi dump
git-fast-import <dump

to rewrite history in a very flexible way.

-Peff