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Re: [BUG] Cannot push some grafted branches

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Dec 17, 2012, 08:43 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> writes:
>
>> ....  In this respect, they seem to be
>> lacking a few features, when compared to "replace" refs, but they have different
>> uses, ...
>
> Not reallyl; grafts were old hack whose use is still supported with
> its original limitations; replace is meant to replace all uses of
> grafts while removing grafts' largest warts.

I suppose there's the additional issue that grafts are much easier to use than replacements if you really only want to replace some parent lists. With replace you need to handcraft the replacement commits, and git-replace(1) unhelpfully does not say this, much less gives an example how to do it.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Yann DirsonDec 11, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2012
  3. Yann DirsonDec 12, 2012
  4. Yann DirsonDec 12, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2012
  6. Yann DirsonDec 17, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2012
  8. Yann DirsonDec 17, 2012
  9. Thomas RastDec 17, 2012
  10. Yann DirsonDec 17, 2012
  11. Christian CouderDec 17, 2012
  12. Yann DirsonDec 17, 2012
  13. Andreas SchwabDec 17, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2012
  15. Yann DirsonDec 18, 2012
  16. Johannes SixtDec 18, 2012
  17. Thomas RastDec 18, 2012
  18. Yann DirsonDec 18, 2012
  19. Thomas RastDec 18, 2012
  20. Jeff KingDec 18, 2012
  21. Johannes SixtDec 19, 2012
  22. Jeff KingDec 19, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoDec 18, 2012
  24. Yann DirsonDec 19, 2012
  25. Thomas RastDec 19, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2012
  27. Michael J GruberDec 21, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2012
  29. Michael J GruberDec 22, 2012

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