d in the wild).</p>
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<p>Even if you don&#8217;t need to edit files but only want to e.g. rename or
remove some and thus can avoid checking out each file (i.e. you can use
--index-filter), you still are passing shell snippets for your filters.
This means that for every commit, you have to have a prepared git repo
where those filters can be run.  That&#8217;s a significant setup.</p>
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<p>Further, several additional files are created or updated per commit by
git-filter-br