Re: [PATCH] Add git-filter-branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2007, 08:17 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy7ix5wf6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <466665AD.CF5B85DF@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> writes:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Okay, then. Are you okay with keeping the same options? (See proposed
>> patch below.)
>
> I can live with it. But what do you think of this in addtion? It
> replaces -k, -r, -s in favor of rev-list arguments.
> ...
> A subset of commits in a branch used to be specified by options (-k, -r)
> as well as the branch tip itself (-s). It is more natural (for git users)
> to specify revision ranges like 'master..next' instead. This makes it so.
> If no range is specified it defaults to 'HEAD'.

FWIW, I find this much more sensible and gittish ;-)