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Re: [PATCH] How to keep a project's canonical history correct.

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SSStephen Smith <ishchis2@gmail.com>
Date
May 9, 2014, 13:41 UTC
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> On May 8, 2014, at 11:08 PM, "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how
> the first parent could become reversed.
> 
> This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed
> by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
> ---
The reason I resubmitted as a brand new patch was because I was using the message ID from the original topic as requested. 
In my repository I did a "git merge --squash" then the format patch.
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  2. David KastrupMay 7, 2014
  3. Jeff KingMay 7, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2014
  5. Jim GarrisonMay 7, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2014
  7. Stephen & Linda SmithMay 8, 2014
  8. How to keep a project's canonical history correct.Stephen P. Smith, May 9, 2014
  9. Stephen SmithMay 9, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2014
  11. Stephen & Linda SmithMay 10, 2014

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