From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:18:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdness
Message-ID: <20080812081851.GK32184@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7viqub9dzi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:25:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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