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Re: File versioning based on shallow Git repositories?

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 13, 2018, 08:52 UTC
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Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> Also maybe it'll be worthwhile to generate .git/info/grafts in a local
> clone of the repo to get back easily visible history.  No grafts in
> the original repo, grafts mess things up.

Just a reminder: modern Git has "git replace", a modern and safe alternative to the grafts file.

Best,
-- 
Jakub Narębski
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