Re: [PATCH] disable grafts during fetch/push/bundle

> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> I didn't mean to insult all Windows users in general.  I was only
>> referring to the fact that since the default Windows command line is not
>> a POSIX shell, even an experienced Windows user might have trouble
>> figuring out how to execute a shell loop.  Putting this functionality in
>> a git command or script, by contrast, would make it work universally, no
>> fuss, no muss.
>
> ;-)
>
> Be it graft or replace, I do not think we want to invite people to
> use these mechansims too lightly to locally rewrite their history
> willy-nilly without fixing their mistakes at the object layer with
> "commit --amend", "rebase", "bfg", etc. in the longer term.  So in
> that sense, adding a command to make it easy is not something I am
> enthusiastic about.
>
> On the other hand, if the user does need to use graft or replace
> (perhaps to prepare for casting the fixed history in stone with
> filter-branch), it would be good to help them avoid making mistakes
> while doing so and tool support may be a way to do so.
>
> So, ... I am of two minds.
>