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Re: [RFC] git-split: Split the history of a git repository by subdirectories and ranges

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 24, 2006, 14:56 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0610241654060.2106@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Although I think that somebody (Dscho?) also had a patch to remove 
> multiple identical parents, which he claimed could happen with 
> simplification otherwise. I didn't look any closer at it.

IIRC It only happened when full history was wished for, _and_ path limiting. And Junio said that in that case, culling identical parents would be the wrong thing to do.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Josh TriplettSep 27, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2006
  3. Andy WhitcroftSep 27, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2006
  6. Josh TriplettOct 23, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsOct 23, 2006
  8. Josh TriplettOct 23, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsOct 23, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiOct 23, 2006
  11. Josh TriplettOct 23, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsOct 23, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 23, 2006
  14. Johannes SchindelinOct 24, 2006
  15. Linus TorvaldsOct 24, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2006
  17. Jakub NarebskiOct 25, 2006
  18. Josh TriplettOct 25, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2006

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