From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:35:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)
Message-ID: <7vvezd9jt8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510311822080.27915@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> 
>> Martin>    cg-diff -r from:to | patch -p1
>> 
>> What's the easiest way then to toss all that intermediate history?
>> I'm thinking of the rcs "-o" switch that "outdates" any deltas in that
>> range.
>
> Start a new branch before the sequence you want to clean up. Then, move 
> the cleaned-up history to that branch, and eventually you can just delete 
> the old one.

Big caveat --- do that before you make that dirty tree available
to outside, otherwise you would be in hot water ;-)