From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 21:46:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft. Message-ID: <7viro3nh07.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > 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.