From: Michael Haggerty Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:29:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable grafts during fetch/push/bundle Message-ID: <531904E1.6010606@alum.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <08A515BA063C44E5A9EFC754793B2AD8@PhilipOakley> On 03/07/2014 12:01 AM, Philip Oakley wrote: > From: "Jeff King" >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 05:41:27PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> >>> > We can wrap that in "git replace --convert-grafts", but I do not > >>> think >>> > grafts are so common that there would be a big demand for it. >>> >>> It's probably easier to wrap it than to explain to Windows users what >>> they have to do. >> >> How would Windows users get a graft file in the first-place? There's no >> GUI for it! ;) > > Now, now... It's dead easy using the git-gui and Notepad++, you can see > and confirm the sha1's, copy and paste, and the graft file is a very > easy format, so even wimps (windows, icons, menus, pointers aka mouse) > folks can do it. (It worked for me when I needed it ;-) I didn't mean to insult all Windows users in general. I was only referring to the fact that since the default Windows command line is not a POSIX shell, even an experienced Windows user might have trouble figuring out how to execute a shell loop. Putting this functionality in a git command or script, by contrast, would make it work universally, no fuss, no muss. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/