From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:22:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-graft-ripple, a tool for permanently grafting history into a tree.
Message-ID: <438418CB.30509@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511221652530.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote:
> 
>>Enhancements over the original example:
>>
>>	o Each newly created commit A' references A, and (A^1)' (The first try
>>	referenced A^1 and (A^1)' but not A)
>>
>>	o Support for incrementally rewriting history is present.
> 
> 
> How about the case of having commits that have pointers to other commits 
> in the comments? 
> 
> For example, on the kernel do
> 
> 	gitk 19842d67340e4a8f616552d344e97fc7452aa37a
> 
> and see how gitk highlights the SHA1's in the commit message and makes 
> hyperlinks to the commits they point to..
> 

For reference, gitweb does the same.

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