From: Mike Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:50:08 GMT
Subject: Re: suggested feature: completely expunge a file (or just a delta) a la rebase
Message-ID: <3c6c07c20704260750o68b1d296kc30c17e54a593023@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7virbju17h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 4/26/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> There have been talks about polishing cg-rewritehist into a
> shape suitable for inclusion in core git.git, now Cogito is not
> actively developed anymore.

Ah, that looks like it'd fit the bill.  I may see if it'll still work
for my simple case.  Thanks for the pointer.

> I think the first thing to fix is its name "rewritehist", which
> may technically be correct, feels a bit too ugly ;-)

Naming is very important.  I seem to recall hearing (from PE) that one
of the early Unix guys was later asked if there was anything they'd
change in hindsight.  Their response: they'd spell "creat" with an
'e'.