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Re: RFC: grafts generalised

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Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 2, 2008, 17:58 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
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> However, if you want more than just ability to edit commits in a text
> file but also inspect changes using normal git commands and gitk (as it
> is possible with grafts), it will require changes to the git core, which,
> perhaps, not difficult to implement using pretend_sha1_file(), but I am
> not sure that everyone will welcome that...

On second thought, it may be not necessary. You can extract an old commit object, edit it, put it into Git with a new SHA1, and then use the graft file to replace all references from an old to a new one. And you will be able to see changes immediately in gitk.

Dmitry
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