From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:33:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdness
Message-ID: <7vod3yqe19.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080812081851.GK32184@machine.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:25:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Perhaps --full-history is needed to the rev-list call (and the recent
>> invention --simplify-merges that will hopefully appear sometime after
>> 1.6.0)?  See recent discussion of --full-history and the default merge
>> simplification between Linus and Roman Zippel.  I suspect that back when
>> the original cg-rewritehistory was written, not many people understood the
>> issues explained in that thread.
>
> Just as a historical note, --subdirectory-filter was actually not part
> of cg-admin-rewritehist.

Ok, that sounds more plausible.  Recent addition whose wrinkles have not
been ironed out.