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Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2017, #06; Fri, 29)
From:   Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:34:54 +0100
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On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 13:34 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> * ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger (2017-09-22) 4
> commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2017-09-25 at c7550033df)
>  + filter-branch: use hash-object instead of mktag
>  + filter-branch: stash away ref map in a branch
>  + filter-branch: preserve and restore $GIT_AUTHOR_* and
> $GIT_COMMITTER_*
>  + filter-branch: reset $GIT_* before cleaning up
> 
>  "git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without
>  the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be
>  created.  This has been corrected.

This set of patches also includes the new --state-branch option to
allow you to do incremental conversions.

Ian.