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Re: [PATCH] [BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft.

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 18, 2006, 21:37 UTC
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On Thu, 18 May 2006, Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> This test fails with 1.3.x and HEAD.  This is a very serious bug, since it
> causes data loss.
Is it/does it?

I'd assume that if you have a graft, you _want_ the history to be hidden and pruned. 

That's how you'd drop history, if you wanted to do it on purpose.
		Linus
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  1. [BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft.Yann Dirson, May 18, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 18, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 18, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  6. Yann DirsonMay 18, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  8. Yann DirsonMay 18, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2006
  10. Yann DirsonMay 19, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiMay 19, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsMay 19, 2006
  13. Yann DirsonMay 19, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsMay 19, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2006
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