For other programs importing git-filter-repo as a library and passing a
blob, commit, tag, or reset callback to RepoFilter, pass a second
parameter to these functions with extra metadata they might find useful.
For simplicity of implementation, this technically changes the calling
signature of the --*-callback functions passed on the command line, but
we hide that behind a _do_not_use_this_variable parameter for now, leave
it undocumented, and encourage folks who want to use it to write an
actual python program that imports git-filter-repo. In the future, we
may modify the --*-callback functions to not pass this extra parameter,
or if it is deemed sufficiently useful, then we'll rename the second
parameter and document it.
As already noted in our API compatibilty caveat near the top of
git-filter-repo, I am not guaranteeing API backwards compatibility.
That especially applies to this metadata argument, other than the fact
that it'll be a dict mapping strings to some kind of value. I might add
more keys, rename them, change the corresponding value, or even remove
keys that used to be part of metadata.
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>
Elijah Newren