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Re: RFC: grafts generalised

From
Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date
Jul 2, 2008, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID
<20080702183701.GE16235@cuci.nl>
In-Reply-To
<20080702182510.GC29559@glandium.org>
Mike Hommey wrote:
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>> These edits are numerous and spread over many months, so the typical 
>> history fixup-sessions involve periods where you make 30 random
>> historicaledits per hour (which need to be viewed and checked every time
>> immediately after making the change).  And say once every 4 months, you
>> run it through git filter-branch to cast everything into stone.  A
>> typical git filter-branch run takes 15 minutes on a repository this
>> size.
>I think the point was more about making a tool to do exactly what you
>want, based on the new git sequencer. Note that git filter-branch could
>also be rewritten to use the sequencer.

As far as I understood it, the new git sequencer rewrites history proper. That is timeconsuming by definition, and thus it is *not* possible to make a tool based on the sequencer that supports the desired iterative-history-rewrite workflow.

-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

You are confused; but this is your normal state.
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  3. Michael J GruberJul 2, 2008
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  5. Mike HommeyJul 2, 2008
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  7. Stephen R. van den BergJul 2, 2008
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  12. Stephen R. van den BergJul 3, 2008
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