From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:16:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Announcing git-reparent
Message-ID: <20130114071608.GL3125@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CAHREChhnf44CprHnS=z9KO5aOkfDPSG6Xb2GU=Kvaz38eTgbUg@mail.gmail.com>

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