From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:53:58 GMT Subject: Re: Draft release notes for v1.5.3, as of -rc1 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vvecmj1ju.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > It is really unfortunate that rewrite-commits came in so late in the > > release cycle, and I am quite sure it should not be in 1.5.3. There is > > just too much new in it, and too many things to flesh out. > > > > Junio, if you want to include it in 1.5.3, it should be marked as alpha > > code, as it has not seen any time in "next", let alone "master". > > I am not considering rewrite-commits for inclusion right now. Fair enough. > I was hoping that filter-branch will stay. Its interface is something > people are already familiar with since the days of its its older > incarnation cg-admin-rewritehist, and it would be really really nice > that anything that attempts to replace it builds on and extends its > external interface. > > Maybe rewrite-commits can be used to delegate the implementation of > heavy lifting from filter-branch? IOW can the latter be just a thin > wrapper around the former? That is a very good idea. Ciao, Dscho