From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Derrick Stolee" <stolee@gmail.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Remove git-filter-branch from git.git; host it elsewhere
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:43:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9ujc827.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190827070324.7l2cpc3dlnithbm6@whir> (Eric Wong's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 07:03:24 +0000")
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
[...]
> AFAIK, filter-branch is not causing support headaches for any
> git developers today. With so many commands in git, it's
> unlikely newbies will ever get around to discover it :)
> So I think think we should be in any rush to remove it.
Nah, discovering it is simple. Just Google for "git change author". That
eventually leads to a script that uses "git filter-branch --env-filter"
to get the job done, and I'm afraid it is spread all over the world.
See, e.g.:
https://help.github.com/en/articles/changing-author-info
> But I agree that filter-branch isn't useful and certainly
> shouldn't be encouraged/promoted.
Well, is there more suitable way to change author for a (large) set of
commits then?
> Yet there's probably still users which ARE happy with it, that
> will never hit the edge cases and problems it poses; and will
> never read release notes. And said users are probably getting
> git from a slow-moving distro, so it'd be a disservice to them
> if they lost a tool they depend on without any warning.
Personally, I'm far from happy with it, but I have no clue how to
substitute it in the job above. Anybody?
-- Sergey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-27 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-22 18:26 RFC: Proposing git-filter-repo for inclusion in git.git Elijah Newren
2019-08-22 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-22 21:12 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-22 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-26 23:52 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Remove git-filter-branch from git.git; host it elsewhere Elijah Newren
2019-08-26 23:52 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] t6006: simplify and optimize empty message test Elijah Newren
2019-08-27 1:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-26 23:52 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] t3427: accelerate this test by using fast-export and fast-import Elijah Newren
2019-08-27 1:25 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-26 23:52 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] git-sh-i18n: work with external scripts Elijah Newren
2019-08-27 1:28 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-26 23:52 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch in documentation Elijah Newren
2019-08-27 1:32 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-27 6:23 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-26 23:52 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] Remove git-filter-branch, it is now external to git.git Elijah Newren
2019-08-27 1:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Remove git-filter-branch from git.git; host it elsewhere Derrick Stolee
2019-08-27 6:17 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-27 7:03 ` Eric Wong
2019-08-27 8:43 ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2019-08-27 22:18 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 8:52 ` Sergey Organov
2019-08-28 17:16 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 19:03 ` Sergey Organov
2019-08-30 20:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-30 23:22 ` Elijah Newren
2019-09-02 9:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-03 17:37 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 0:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Warn about git-filter-branch usage and avoid it Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 0:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] t6006: simplify and optimize empty message test Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 0:22 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] t3427: accelerate this test by using fast-export and fast-import Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 6:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-08-28 0:22 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 6:17 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-08-28 21:48 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 0:22 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] Remove git-filter-branch, it is now external to git.git Elijah Newren
2019-08-29 0:06 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Warn about git-filter-branch usage and avoid it Elijah Newren
2019-08-29 0:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t6006: simplify and optimize empty message test Elijah Newren
2019-08-29 0:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] t3427: accelerate this test by using fast-export and fast-import Elijah Newren
2019-08-29 0:06 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch Elijah Newren
2019-08-29 18:10 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-08-30 0:04 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-29 0:06 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] t9902: use a non-deprecated command for testing Elijah Newren
2019-08-30 5:57 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Warn about git-filter-branch usage and avoid it Elijah Newren
2019-08-30 5:57 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] t6006: simplify and optimize empty message test Elijah Newren
2019-09-02 14:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-30 5:57 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] t3427: accelerate this test by using fast-export and fast-import Elijah Newren
2019-09-02 14:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-30 5:57 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch Elijah Newren
2019-08-30 5:57 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] t9902: use a non-deprecated command for testing Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 18:55 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] Warn about git-filter-branch usage and avoid it Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 18:55 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] t6006: simplify and optimize empty message test Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-03 21:58 ` Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-03 18:55 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] t3427: accelerate this test by using fast-export and fast-import Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-03 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-04 20:32 ` Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 18:55 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-04 20:30 ` Elijah Newren
2019-09-03 18:55 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] t9902: use a non-deprecated command for testing Elijah Newren
2019-09-04 22:32 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] Warn about git-filter-branch usage and avoid it Elijah Newren
2019-09-04 22:32 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] t6006: simplify, fix, and optimize empty message test Elijah Newren
2019-09-04 22:32 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch Elijah Newren
2019-09-04 22:32 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] t9902: use a non-deprecated command for testing Elijah Newren
2019-08-23 3:00 ` RFC: Proposing git-filter-repo for inclusion in git.git Eric Wong
2019-08-23 18:06 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-23 18:29 ` Elijah Newren
2019-08-28 11:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-28 15:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-23 12:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-26 19:56 ` Jeff King
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