Re: Recording merges after repo conversion

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Oct 31, 2007, 15:21 UTC
Message-ID: <200710311621.09845.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710311503120.4362@racer.site>

On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Johan Herland wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > All this does not change the fact that installing a graft and 'git gc 
> > > --prune'ing gets rid of the old history.  D'oh.
> > 
> > So will rebasing and --prune'ing, or pulling a rebased branch and 
> > --prune'ing. Git already gives you _plenty_ of different ropes to hang 
> > yourself with. The question is whether adding yet another one is worth 
> > it.
> 
> But that is not the question here.  The question here is: are users 
> allowed to hang _others_?  I say: no.

Well, to a certain degree (and depending on your level of paranoia), you're always responsible for the code entering your own repo, and you could always set up a hook disallowing ".gitgrafts" (or whatever it would be called) from entering your repo.

But taking this (and everything else that's been said) into account, I totally agree with you that adding this feature would open up a _massive_ can of worms.

EOD

...Johan

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