From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:56:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-split: Split the history of a git repository by subdirectories and ranges
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610241654060.2106@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610231237080.3962@g5.osdl.org>

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