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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 37634bf..752e4b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-fast-export - Git data exporter SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git fast-export [<options>]' | 'git fast-import' +'git fast-export' [<options>] | 'git fast-import' DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die when encountering such a tag. With 'drop' it will omit such tags from the output. With 'rewrite', if the tagged object is a commit, it will rewrite the tag to tag an ancestor commit (via parent rewriting; see -linkgit:git-rev-list[1]) +linkgit:git-rev-list[1]). -M:: -C:: @@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ by keeping the marks the same across runs. the shape of the history and stored tree. See the section on `ANONYMIZING` below. +--anonymize-map=<from>[:<to>]:: + Convert token `<from>` to `<to>` in the anonymized output. If + `<to>` is omitted, map `<from>` to itself (i.e., do not + anonymize it). See the section on `ANONYMIZING` below. + --reference-excluded-parents:: By default, running a command such as `git fast-export master~5..master` will not include the commit master{tilde}5 @@ -142,7 +147,7 @@ by keeping the marks the same across runs. Specify how to handle `encoding` header in commit objects. When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die when encountering such a commit object. With 'yes', the commit - message will be reencoded into UTF-8. With 'no', the original + message will be re-encoded into UTF-8. With 'no', the original encoding will be preserved. --refspec:: @@ -238,6 +243,30 @@ collapse "User 0", "User 1", etc into "User X"). This produces a much smaller output, and it is usually easy to quickly confirm that there is no private data in the stream. +Reproducing some bugs may require referencing particular commits or +paths, which becomes challenging after refnames and paths have been +anonymized. You can ask for a particular token to be left as-is or +mapped to a new value. For example, if you have a bug which reproduces +with `git rev-list sensitive -- secret.c`, you can run: + +--------------------------------------------------- +$ git fast-export --anonymize --all \ + --anonymize-map=sensitive:foo \ + --anonymize-map=secret.c:bar.c \ + >stream +--------------------------------------------------- + +After importing the stream, you can then run `git rev-list foo -- bar.c` +in the anonymized repository. + +Note that paths and refnames are split into tokens at slash boundaries. +The command above would anonymize `subdir/secret.c` as something like +`path123/bar.c`; you could then search for `bar.c` in the anonymized +repository to determine the final pathname. + +To make referencing the final pathname simpler, you can map each path +component; so if you also anonymize `subdir` to `publicdir`, then the +final pathname would be `publicdir/bar.c`. LIMITATIONS ----------- |