While the underlying fast-export and fast-import streams explicitly
separate 'from' commit (first parent) and 'merge' commits (all other
parents), foisting that separation into the Commit object for
filter-repo forces additional places in the code to deal with that
distinction. It results in less clear code, and especially does not
make sense to push upon folks who may want to use filter-repo as a
library.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
There are a number of things not present in "normal" imports that we
nevertheless support and need to be tested:
* broken timezone adjustment (+051800->+0261; observed in the wild
in real repos, and adjustment prevents fast-import from dying)
* commits missing an author (observed in the wild in a real repo;
just sets author to committer)
* optional additional linefeeds in the input allowed by
git-fast-import but usually not written by git-fast-export
* progress and checkpoint objects
* progress, checkpoint, and 'everything' callbacks
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Python wants filenames with underscores instead of hyphens and with a
.py extension. We really want the main file named git-filter-repo, but
we can add a git_filter_repo.py symlink. Doing so dramatically
simplifies the steps needed to import it as a library in external python
scripts.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Most filtering operations are not interested in the time that commits
were authored or committed, or when tags were tagged. As such,
translating the string representation of the date into a datetime object
is wasted effort, and causes us to waste more time later as we have to
translate it back into a string.
Instead, provide string_to_date() and date_to_string() functions so that
callers can perform the translation if wanted, and let the normal case
be fast.
Provides a small but noticable speedup when just filtering based on
paths; about a 3.5% improvement in execution time for writing the new
history.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Elijah Newren