Re: Questions about the new

From: Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2009, 07:49 UTC
Message-ID: <4AD43123.3060401@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wfge2zu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> If I want to replace some commit X by some commit X' I merely need to
>> modify the
>> parent information of all the commits that are child of X so that they
>> pretend
>> to be child of X', or am I missing something?
>>     
>
> You need to find all the commits that are child of X in the first place.
> What should happen if your colleague has such a commit in his repository
> (which you haven't fetched from yet), you enumerated all children of X
> known to you in your graft file and then you fetch from him?  You need to
> enumerate all children of X again to keep the graft file up to date.
>

Ok, that is enlightening. When trying to sort out the differences, advantages and disadvantages of operating on arcs (grafts like) or on nodes (replacements like) I was thinking local, rather than distributed. Now the advantage of working on nodes is much clearer to me.

Thanks as usual for the very clear explanation.

Sergio