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Re: [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdness

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Aug 12, 2008, 08:18 UTC
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<20080812081851.GK32184@machine.or.cz>
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:25:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Perhaps --full-history is needed to the rev-list call (and the recent
> invention --simplify-merges that will hopefully appear sometime after
> 1.6.0)?  See recent discussion of --full-history and the default merge
> simplification between Linus and Roman Zippel.  I suspect that back when
> the original cg-rewritehistory was written, not many people understood the
> issues explained in that thread.

Just as a historical note, --subdirectory-filter was actually not part of cg-admin-rewritehist.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 27 of 35 in “git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter, still a mistery”
  1. Jan WielemakerAug 6, 2008
  2. Jan WielemakerAug 7, 2008
  3. Thomas RastAug 7, 2008
  4. Jan WielemakerAug 7, 2008
  5. Thomas RastAug 7, 2008
  6. filter-branch: be more helpful when an annotated tag changesThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008
  7. filter-branch: add option --delete-unchangedThomas Rast, Aug 8, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 9, 2008
  9. Jan WielemakerAug 11, 2008
  10. Felipe ContrerasSep 14, 2008
  11. [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdnessThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinAug 8, 2008
  13. Thomas RastAug 8, 2008
  14. filter-branch: fix ancestor discovery for --subdirectory-filterThomas Rast, Aug 8, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinAug 8, 2008
  16. Thomas RastAug 8, 2008
  17. filter-branch: fix ref rewriting with --subdirectory-filterThomas Rast, Aug 8, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinAug 9, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2008
  20. Thomas RastAug 9, 2008
  21. Thomas RastAug 9, 2008
  22. filter-branch: use --simplify-mergesThomas Rast, Aug 10, 2008
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  25. Thomas RastAug 12, 2008
  26. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  27. Petr BaudisAug 12, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  29. Thomas RastAug 9, 2008
  30. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  31. Thomas RastAug 12, 2008
  32. Jan WielemakerAug 8, 2008
  33. Jan WielemakerAug 8, 2008
  34. Documentation: filter-branch: document how to filter all refsThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008
  35. Documentation: filter-branch: document how to filter all refsThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008

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