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Re: RFC: grafts generalised

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 3, 2008, 00:28 UTC
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
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> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 02:13:31AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>>   So, the real solution is to take the commit objects you want to
>> modify, create new commit objects, then graft the new commit on all the
>> old commit children. It fits neatly in the Git philosophy, there is no
>> need at all to tweak the current infrastructure for this and it should
>> be trivial to automate, too.
>
>   Oops, sorry; I stopped reading the branch of the thread I thought was
> going off on a different tangent one post too early. :-)

What you wrote was a very good summary of what Dmitry suggested earlier ;-)

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  5. Mike HommeyJul 2, 2008
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  7. Stephen R. van den BergJul 2, 2008
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  11. Stephan BeyerJul 2, 2008
  12. Stephen R. van den BergJul 3, 2008
  13. Andreas EricssonJul 7, 2008
  14. Stephen R. van den BergJul 7, 2008
  15. Stephen R. van den BergJul 2, 2008
  16. Petr BaudisJul 3, 2008
  17. Stephen R. van den BergJul 3, 2008
  18. Jakub NarebskiJul 4, 2008
  19. Dmitry PotapovJul 2, 2008
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  21. Stephen R. van den BergJul 2, 2008
  22. Dmitry PotapovJul 2, 2008
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  25. Avery PennarunJul 2, 2008
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  29. Johannes SixtJul 3, 2008
  30. Stephen R. van den BergJul 3, 2008
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  32. Stephen R. van den BergJul 3, 2008
  33. Stephen R. van den BergJul 2, 2008
  34. Petr BaudisJul 3, 2008
  35. Petr BaudisJul 3, 2008
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