From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 19:05:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Add --graft option to git replace
Message-ID: <20140527.210520.2165451218485597326.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7g5cl9d2.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Add --graft option to git replace
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:59:05 -0700

> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> 
>> Here is a small patch series to implement:
>>
>> 	git replace [-f] --graft <commit> [<parent>...]
>>
>> The changes since the RFC/PATCH are the following:
>>
>> - in patch 1/3, parse_commit_buffer() is now used to
>>   make sure <commit> is not corrupt
>> - patch 2/3 add some tests
>> - patch 3/3 add some documentation
>>
>> About the documentation, maybe we should add that --graft
>> can now be used instead of grafts in .git/info/grafts,
>> and maybe we could add an example that shows how it can
>> be done.
> 
> Or a procedure that reads .git/info/grafts, converts it to a set of
> replacements and drops .git/info/grafts.  A sample script could be
> thrown in to contrib/ somewhere as "convert-graft-to-replace.sh".

Ok, I just sent a patch that adds such a sample script.

Thanks,
Christian.