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Re: questions / suggestions about history simplification

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Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Date
Dec 19, 2013, 20:46 UTC
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:39:05PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> writes:
> 
> > Ah OK, that makes sense now, but not the most intuitive choice of name
> > IMHO.  I would have gone for something like --all-commits, but I guess
> > it's way too late to change now.
> 
> Besides, it is not --all-commits, is it?  We do cull irrelevant side
> branches IIRC.

True, unless (IIUC) --full-history is also specified, in which case no commit chains are pruned from the walk.

So --all-walked-commits sounds about right.
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