Re: suggested feature: completely expunge a file (or just a delta) a la rebase

From: Mike Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2007, 16:24 UTC
Message-ID: <3c6c07c20705030924i2204d972s14b0377ffe1fde76@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704261716140.12006@racer.site>

I have no idea why bike sheds should be painted red (though this does sound very vaguely familiar). I did get a chance to try out cg-admin-rewritehist last night, and it worked like a charm. Even got rid of my graft point (my project has previously lived in RCS, CVS, and Subversion).

Anyway, it'd definitely be useful, I think, especially as a means to unroll newby mistakes such as mine.

Mike

On 4/26/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Mike Coleman wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Maybe git-rewrite-commits?
>
> > 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'.
>
> In related news: there is really no question that bike sheds should be
> painted red. Really.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>