Elijah Newren

> It did exactly what I wanted it to do, it removed all references to that file from the commit history in my branch. No, the tool is called filter-repo,...

I'm going to close this out. I think the Ubuntu instructions should just be `apt-get install git-filter-repo`, and that, as noted above, these instructions -- while they have good intentions...

Sorry for the delay. The PR looks good, except that the sign-off (and author and committer) needs to use a real email address; @users.noreply.github.com doesn't cut it. Could you update?

Sorry for the long delay. This PR is very interesting. I think @huyz's comment is a good one, though: this would give us a very heavy amount of code duplication...

Yeah, seems to be more of a bug in the description than in the code logic; I think I assumed when I wrote the description that any hash-looking things would...

You have me stumped; I have absolutely no idea how that could possibly happen. Perhaps try adding the --debug flag and compare the .git/filter-repo/fast-export.{original,filtered} files. Does the fast-export.filtered version show...

I implemented the alternative using the `-z` flag to check-ignore in commit 2800bcc1007e (clean-ignore: support utf-8 filenames found in .gitignore, 2024-07-02)

Sigh...this means yet another thing we borrow from git that will continue going further and further out of date...though it probably makes sense since those things don't get changed that...

#526 was fixed a couple weeks ago with 7c5be8e30355 (Support git 2.43, 2023-12-08). The rsync issues are outside the scope of this project. The tests all pass on Python 3.12...

> Now we just need a new release so we can package it properly without a bunch of backport shenanigans. Yep, totally understood. There are more issues in the backlog...