Re: fixing duplicated history
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- Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>
- Date
- Nov 12, 2008, 22:57 UTC
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- <20081112225739.GB24013@frodo>
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- <7vod0klfng.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:53:55PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> writes: > > > I have a git tree which history is completely messed up with duplicated > > entries. By reading git man pages I saw that it might be possible to > > delete those duplicated entries with git reflog delete, am I reading it > > right ? > > > > If so, would it cause any problems to the users who already cloned the > > original tree ? I mean, will git see it as a different history line and > > try a merge or will it figure it's the same tree with the duplicated > > entries removed ? > > I assume that you meant "commit" by "entry", and also I assume that you > read "git filter-branch" not "git reflog delete". Then you are right. > > And rewriting history with filter-branch will cause problems to the > downstream users.
Yes, you got me right. Hmm, so if it'll cause problems to the downstream users I can't do anything, unfortunately :-(
Unless they wanna clone the tree again :-p
Thanks for the info Junio.
-- balbi