From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:15:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add git-rewrite-commits
Message-ID: <20070708181557.GL1528MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <46912726.5080807@midwinter.com>

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:04:22AM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:
> 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