Re: [PATCH] [BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw awayrevs hidden by a graft.

> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:53:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> To make my point maybe more clear: if someone really wants to make a
>>>> graft permanent, wouldn't some history rewriting ... be the
>>>> way to go,...
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> So if temporary usage is a typical use for grafts, don't we want to
>> protect people using them from pruning ?  I got no feedback to my
>> suggestion of changing the default behaviour, even to say it was a bad
>> idea :)
>
> I don't actually know how much grafts end up being used. Right now, the
> only really valid use I know about is to graft together the old kernel
> history kind of thing, and I suspect not a whole lot of people do that (I
> keep a separate kernel history tree around for when I need to look at it,
> and it doesn't happen all that often).
>
> So I think the lack of feedback on the graft-related issue comes directly
> from that lack of graft usage.