From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:57:54 GMT
Subject: Re: suggested feature: completely expunge a file (or just a delta) a la rebase
Message-ID: <7virbju17h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <3c6c07c20704252248q3cd82d4cgcffb9852fa261a70@mail.gmail.com>

"Mike Coleman" <tutufan@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 ;-)