From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:58:20 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: grafts generalised
Message-ID: <37fcd2780807021058r5ed820cfmdc98f98f36d5c8ae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <37fcd2780807021019t76008bbfq265f8bf15f59c178@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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