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Re: [PATCH] [BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 18, 2006, 21:46 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> Is it/does it?
>
> I'd assume that if you have a graft, you _want_ the history to be hidden 
> and pruned. 
>
> That's how you'd drop history, if you wanted to do it on purpose.

I haven't looked at what the test does, but I think he is talking about the opposite. fsck by design does not honor grafts, and if you grafted a history back to your true root commit, that "older" history will be lost.

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Message 3 of 16 in “[BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft.”
  1. [BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft.Yann Dirson, May 18, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 18, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 18, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  6. Yann DirsonMay 18, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  8. Yann DirsonMay 18, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  10. Yann DirsonMay 19, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiMay 19, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsMay 19, 2006
  13. Yann DirsonMay 19, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsMay 19, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2006
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