From: erik88 <erik88@gmail.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Subject: Re: git-replay/git-history lose notes
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 11:49:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anWpt6rzws0yYdFH@vader> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHbWKr5tv9ApH8ZagJkY39XZgQbLoFrmQJfU71z1y6_xw@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/08/26 23:53, Elijah Newren wrote:
> git filter-repo (and implicitly fast-export/fast-import) too, though
> that one's a slightly bigger can of worms. (Trying to treat notes as
> the underlying commits they are represented as is a really poor way to
> export and import them; any filtering on the underlying commits will
> cause the notes that attach to them to just be lost since they will
> instead attach to the original commit.)
There are some workarounds for filter-repo, IIRC they work _okay_.
https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/22#issuecomment-1834041470
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-07 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-04 20:06 git-replay/git-history lose notes D. Ben Knoble
2026-08-05 6:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-08-05 11:39 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-08-05 13:00 ` Phillip Wood
2026-08-05 13:05 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-08-05 13:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-08-07 6:53 ` Elijah Newren
2026-08-07 9:49 ` erik88 [this message]
2026-08-07 15:16 ` Elijah Newren
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