Re: [QUESTION] about .git/info/grafts file

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jan 19, 2006, 11:10 UTC
Message-ID: <43CF739F.2030204@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xtdrqwg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I'm wondering why the "grafts" files is not involved during
>>push/pull/clone operations ?
> 
> 
> Commit ancestry grafting is a local repository issue and even if
> you manage to lie to your local git that 300,000th commit is the
> epoch, the commit object you send out to the downloader would
> record its true parent (or parents, if it is a merge), so the
> downloader would want to go further back.  And no, rewriting
> that commit and feeding a parentless commit to the downloader is
> not an option, because such a commit object would have different
> object name and unpack-objects would be unhappy.
>

I'm a bit curious about how this was done for the public kernel repo. I'd like to import glibc to git, but keeping history since 1972 seems a bloody waste, really.

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