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Re: Announcing git-reparent

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 14, 2013, 07:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20130114071608.GL3125@elie.Belkin>
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Hi Mark,
Mark Lodato wrote:
> Create a new commit object that has the same tree and commit message as HEAD
> but with a different set of parents.  If ``--no-reset`` is given, the full
> object id of this commit is printed and the program exits

I've been wishing for something like this for a long time. I used to fake it using "cat-file commit", sed, and "hash-object -w" when stitching together poorly imported history using "git replace".

Thanks for writing it.

Ciao, Jonathan

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  2. Jonathan NiederJan 14, 2013
  3. Piotr KrukowieckiJan 14, 2013
  4. Andreas SchwabJan 14, 2013
  5. Mark LodatoJan 14, 2013
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