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Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Nov 19, 2005, 01:07 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181705390.13959@g5.osdl.org>
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> At the same time, I am sympathetic if somebody wants to be able to say 
> just "The change this commit brings in can be used to modify the 
> behaviour X to Y".

Well, you can obviously use a commit that way, and indeed, every time we do a "rebase", that's effectively saying "I know the commit has history, but now I want to use it purely as a tree conversion".

I'm not convinced we ever really _need_ a pure "tree-to-tree" thing, although you can always do that by creating an extra commit with no parent and thus no history ;)

		Linus
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Message 23 of 29 in “Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through”
  1. Yann DirsonNov 17, 2005
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 17, 2005
  3. Yann DirsonNov 19, 2005
  4. Yann DirsonNov 19, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 19, 2005
  6. Yann DirsonNov 19, 2005
  7. Matthias UrlichsNov 19, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 20, 2005
  9. Matthias UrlichsNov 20, 2005
  10. Johannes SchindelinNov 20, 2005
  11. Yann DirsonNov 20, 2005
  12. Paul MackerrasNov 23, 2005
  13. Matthias UrlichsNov 23, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsNov 23, 2005
  15. Yann DirsonNov 20, 2005
  16. Johannes SchindelinNov 20, 2005
  17. Matthias UrlichsNov 21, 2005
  18. Ryan AndersonNov 21, 2005
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  20. sfNov 18, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsNov 18, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2005
  23. Linus TorvaldsNov 19, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2005
  25. Linus TorvaldsNov 19, 2005
  26. Yann DirsonNov 19, 2005
  27. Yann DirsonNov 19, 2005
  28. Josef WeidendorferNov 18, 2005
  29. Yann DirsonNov 19, 2005

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