Re: [PATCH 0/3] fast-export: allow dumping anonymization mappings

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Hi Peff,

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

The "master" branch is special in fast-export in that we don't anonymize
it.  And the reason is that it helps to have some known reference point
between the original and anonymized repo, so you can find the same
commits.

This series gives an alternate way to achieve the same effect, but much
better in that it works for _any_ ref (so if you are trying to reproduce
the effect of "rev-list origin/foo..bar" in the anonymized repo, you can
easily do so). Ditto for paths, so that "rev-list -- foo.c" can be
reproduced in the anonymized repo.

And then we can drop the specialness of "master", which in turn is one
less thing to worry about in Dscho's series to make the default branch
configurable.

Thank you for working on this!

I don't have any suggestions on top of Eric's and Junio's.

I'll drop the `fast-export` patches from the next round of my patch
series.

Understood.  Thanks, all.