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Re: RFD: best way to automatically rewrite a git DAG as a linear history?

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2010, 03:05 UTC
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
> (A hammer is, of course, a reasonably good tool for making things flat
> although it does tend to break things along the way).

Nice analogy. Well, thanks for the clarification and best of luck in your slightly crazy project :)

Have fun,
Avery
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