From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:14:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Cannot push some grafted branches
Message-ID: <7vwqwgjs8f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m21ueo78f8.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yeah, at one point I wanted to have a command that created to craft a
>> new commit based on an existing one.
>
> This isn't hard to do, you only have to resort to plumbing:
>
> $ git cat-file commit fef11965da875c105c40f1a9550af1f5e34a6e62 | sed s/bfae342c973b0be3c9e99d3d86ed2e6b152b4a6b/790c83cda92f95f1b4b91e2ddc056a52a99a055d/ | git hash-object -t commit --stdin -w
> bb45cc6356eac6c7fa432965090045306dab7026

Good.  I do not think an extra special-purpose command is welcome
here.