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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 19, 2006, 20:45 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605191344200.10823@g5.osdl.org>
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On Fri, 19 May 2006, Yann Dirson wrote:
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> 
> > We _could_ decide that fsck should just follow the "real parents" and the 
> > grafts _both_. That's the safe thing to do by default. Possibly with a 
> > flag to say "prefer one over the other", or even a "prefer which-ever 
> > exists".
> 
> I'm not sure I see how "prefer which-ever exists" would be useful - do
> you have anything precise in mind ?

It would be a "once you've pruned one or the other, don't complain any more about the fact that it doesn't exist" flag.

		Linus
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Message 14 of 16 in “[BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft.”
  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
  16. David LangMay 19, 2006

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