docs: add git filter-repo concept guide - #98
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Rewrite the filter-repo vs filter-branch material into a house-voice concept article covering mechanism, safe mirror workflow, and cleanup. Co-authored-by: Ziinc <Ziinc@users.noreply.github.com>
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Add in-body links from the filter-repo guide, and inbound links from version-control, merge-vs-rebase, and worktrees-vs-clones so the page is no longer orphaned or thin. Co-authored-by: Ziinc <Ziinc@users.noreply.github.com>
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Rewrites the provided
git filter-repobrief into a house-voice concept article underweb/learn/concepts/git/.Changes
What is git filter-repo?covering whyfilter-branchis unsafe/slow, howfilter-reporewrites via fast-export streams,--analyze, mirror-clone workflow, force-push, and local/remote GC cleanupmainreadability.py --strictclean (Flesch 55.6, no hard bans or AI tells)version-control,merge-vs-rebase, andgit-worktrees-vs-clonesDeliberately skipped TF-IDF gaps
empty→ human-in-the-loop development (wrong sense)rewrites→ stacked PRs (tangential owner; Next Steps already covers stacks)