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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:18:24 +0100 (BST)
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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.

I guess these people are more comfortable with what you just described.

Ciao,
Dscho