From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:02:54 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: grafts generalised
Message-ID: <486C6B8E.5040202@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080702181021.GD16235@cuci.nl>

Stephen R. van den Berg schrieb:
> Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hmmmm, interesting thought.  That just might solve my problem.

I don't think it would.

You want to apply a patch through a part of the history. To do that, it is
not sufficient to apply the patch to only one commit/tree and then fake
parenthood of its child commits. You still need to apply the patch to all
children.

-- Hannes