Re: [PATCH] Add git-graft-ripple, a tool for permanently grafting history into a tree.

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Nov 23, 2005, 15:40 UTC

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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511231638080.8993@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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<20051123135150.GA16995@mythryan2.michonline.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote:

> For some reason, my gut says that this goes too far.  I'm having a hard
> time pinning down a way to explain that.

I can pin down what my gut says:

- the old commits still exist, so the links are not invalid
- the commit message is signed off as is
- the process to find the correct new SHA1 is not straight-forward, i.e.
  one would need to introduce a recursion where now suffices a simple
  linear loop.