Re: [PATCH] contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

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.
  

Guilty. my own filter-branch supports things like custom re-ordering of
commits prior to rewriting (eg, if you need to refer to one commit to
another in a commit message, you better make sure it happens in the
right order).

I personally want to be able to dump patches, including merges, to
git-format-patch format, in such a way that all other information (eg,
committer, date, etc) is preserved. And probably using something akin to
Message-Id: headers for a "patch UUID" which is what you need when
you're working with piles of patches like that.

Sam.