From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:53:55 GMT
Subject: Re: fixing duplicated history
Message-ID: <7vod0klfng.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081112222346.GA24013@frodo>

Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> writes:

> I have a git tree which history is completely messed up with duplicated
> entries. By reading git man pages I saw that it might be possible to
> delete those duplicated entries with git reflog delete, am I reading it
> right ?
>
> If so, would it cause any problems to the users who already cloned the
> original tree ? I mean, will git see it as a different history line and
> try a merge or will it figure it's the same tree with the duplicated
> entries removed ?

I assume that you meant "commit" by "entry", and also I assume that you
read "git filter-branch" not "git reflog delete".  Then you are right.

And rewriting history with filter-branch will cause problems to the
downstream users.