From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:24:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] commit: add parse_commit_repl() to replace commits at parsing time
Message-ID: <20100818042459.GD21185@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <201008180607.54675.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder wrote:

> The downside is that the sha1 will not be 
> consistent with the content anymore and that it will be more difficult to 
> realize that an object has been replaced as there will be no sha1 change to be 
> seen.

Maybe in the long run it would make sense to keep a "replaced" flag
and use it to mark the replace objects specially in some user-facing
commands (like log --format=medium).