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Re: suggested feature: completely expunge a file (or just a delta) a la rebase

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 26, 2007, 05:57 UTC
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"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@gmail.com> writes:
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> Here's an idea for a git feature.  (Or perhaps this is already
> possible and I just don't see it.)
> ...
> Anyway, I realized that hacking the archive this way isn't very
> elegant, but maybe others would find it useful.  It seems like the
> basic technique of git-rebase could be applied here.

There have been talks about polishing cg-rewritehist into a shape suitable for inclusion in core git.git, now Cogito is not actively developed anymore.

I think the first thing to fix is its name "rewritehist", which may technically be correct, feels a bit too ugly ;-)

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  4. Johannes SchindelinApr 26, 2007
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