Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add git-rewrite-commits
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- Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
- Date
- Jul 8, 2007, 18:15 UTC
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- <20070708181557.GL1528MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
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- <46912726.5080807@midwinter.com>
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:04:22AM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:
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> This command points us in the direction of a "remove/rename this file in > history" feature that doesn't require forking tens of thousands of child > processes on a repo with lots of history. For that alone I think it's > worthwhile, even though it's not there yet; that will never happen with > a shell script. And yeah, that's not a frequent operation, but it's sure > nice when even the infrequent operations are lightning fast.
I couldn't come up with a clean interface to specify removes/renames on the command line (other than copying the external command idea from cg-admin-rewritehist), but this is one of the operations I have to perform on the project I'm cleaning up, so if you have any suggestions, I'd be interested to hear them.
skimo