From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:26:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Unexpected behavior in git-rev-list
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509221424390.2553@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509221617300.23242@iabervon.org>



On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> >
> > It's not entirely trivial. The biggest bummer is that we'd have to fake
> > out the parent info (ie the "parent" would have to be the previous entry
> > that changes it, not the real one).
> 
> How about a program that made the fake thing real? That is, actually wrote 
> to the database the entire history with only those paths included, and 
> only commits that change those paths.

I think it would be a fine thing to do. If/once git-rev-list can do the 
"limit by filename" part, generating a new git history that uses that 
shouldn't be that hard.

And yes, it would be a way to generate a "subproject" automatically.

		Linus