From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:28:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EFB65B.6030202@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709181217200.28586@racer.site>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Exactly what I meant. Some people seem to have problems with
> filter-branch, but somehow no proper bug report, let alone fix, evolved
> from that.
>
The main problem is that it in my use-cases fixes a nuisance, but not a
real problem, while the man-page SYNOPSIS consists of a full 5 lines, most
of which are far from obvious at a first glance. The seeming effort involved
just doesn't seem worth bothering with.
> I guess these people are more comfortable with what you just described.
>
I know I would be, especially since all changes would show up in an entirely
different repo. I know filter-branch is probably completely safe, but even a
0.1% risk of losing *anything* isn't worth taking to fix a small nuisance.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 7:26 [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example Jeff King
2007-09-18 7:27 ` Jeff King
2007-09-18 10:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-18 10:28 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-18 10:30 ` Jeff King
2007-09-18 11:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-18 11:28 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-09-18 11:57 ` Sam Vilain
2007-09-18 12:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-18 13:25 ` Sam Vilain
2007-09-18 11:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
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