From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:07:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181705390.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bltea1t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



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