From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:28:50 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: grafts generalised
Message-ID: <7vy74j6cal.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080703001614.GG12567@machine.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> 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
;-)