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diff --git a/_posts/2020-12-06-fossil-to-git.md b/_posts/2020-12-06-fossil-to-git.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c32e2da --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2020-12-06-fossil-to-git.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +title: fossil export to git +author: la-ninpre +tags: [fossil, git, tutorial] +--- + +i was trying to export my website repo to fossil using suggested method from +[fossil website][1]: + +``` +git fast-export --all | fossil import --git repo.fossil +``` +[1]:https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/inout.wiki + +but i didn't like that fossil recognizes my email as username and so commit +messages user was `user@example.com` instead of `user`. + +i then read a bit about options of `git fast-export` and found `--anonymize` +flag. but it's results weren't satisfying either. + +when i looked on a raw output of `git fast-export`, i noticed that commit author +is specified there as + +``` +author user <user@example.com> +``` + +and then it's flashed in my head: why not pipe git export through sed and just +replace the contents of `<>` with username instead of email. + +so the final command looks like this: + +``` +git fast-export --all | \ + sed -E 's/^((author)|(committer))[[:blank:]]+([[:graph:]]+)[[:blank:]]+(<[[:alnum:]]+@[[:alnum:]]+\.[[:alnum:]]+>)/\1 \4 <\4>/' | \ + fossil import --git repo.fossil +``` + +and it converts + +``` +author user <user@example.com> +``` + +to + +``` +author user <user> +``` + +which is odd, but fine for fossil import. |