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Re: clone breaks replace

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SBStephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date
Jan 7, 2011, 21:15 UTC
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> From: "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> To: "Phillip Susi" <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 7, 2011 3:51:03 PM
> Subject: Re: clone breaks replace
> Phillip Susi wrote:
> 
> > Isn't the whole purpose of using replace to avoid having to use
> > filter-branch, which throws out all of the existing commit records,
> > and creates an entirely new commit chain that is slightly modified?
> 
> No. What documentation suggested that? Maybe it can be fixed.
I'll chime in here as another person who read the ProGit blog entry on git-replace [1] and came to the same conclusion Phillip (and I'm guessing others) did.  OTOH when I attempted to read the actual git-replace manpage, I got completely lost, so I retained my (apparently incorrect) understanding from ProGit.

Thanks, Stephen

[1] http://progit.org/2010/03/17/replace.html
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  1. Phillip SusiJan 6, 2011
  2. Jonathan NiederJan 6, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2011
  4. Phillip SusiJan 7, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2011
  6. Stephen BashJan 7, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2011
  8. Phillip SusiJan 7, 2011
  9. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2011
  10. Phillip SusiJan 7, 2011
  11. Jeff KingJan 7, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2011
  13. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2011
  15. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  16. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  17. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  18. Christian CouderJan 11, 2011
  19. Phillip SusiJan 8, 2011
  20. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  21. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  22. Phillip SusiJan 11, 2011
  23. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  24. Phillip SusiJan 11, 2011
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  26. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  27. Johannes SixtJan 11, 2011
  28. Jeff KingJan 11, 2011
  29. Johannes SixtJan 11, 2011
  30. Phillip SusiJan 11, 2011
  31. Jonathan NiederJan 11, 2011
  32. Phillip SusiJan 12, 2011
  33. small downloads and immutable history (Re: clone breaks replace)Jonathan Nieder, Jan 14, 2011
  34. Phillip SusiJan 15, 2011

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