From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:13:57 GMT Subject: Re: Draft release notes for v1.5.3, as of -rc1 Message-ID: <7vvecmj1ju.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > It is really unfortunate that rewrite-commits came in so late in the > release cycle, and I am quite sure it should not be in 1.5.3. There is > just too much new in it, and too many things to flesh out. > > Junio, if you want to include it in 1.5.3, it should be marked as alpha > code, as it has not seen any time in "next", let alone "master". I am not considering rewrite-commits for inclusion right now. I was hoping that filter-branch will stay. Its interface is something people are already familiar with since the days of its its older incarnation cg-admin-rewritehist, and it would be really really nice that anything that attempts to replace it builds on and extends its external interface. Maybe rewrite-commits can be used to delegate the implementation of heavy lifting from filter-branch? IOW can the latter be just a thin wrapper around the former?