From: Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:15:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Git SVN Rebranching Issue
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0811040215r68cc8443y2b723d6018e2a17b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081104094224.GC24100@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:42, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:41:11AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
>> Short answer: you can use grafts to remove parents.
>
> Using grafts requires some cautious, especially when it is used to make
> some commits unreachable, because git gc can remove unreachable commits.
> Also, a repository with grafts cannot be cloned.  So using grafts looks
> like more as workaround rather a real solution

I think what was meants is to use grafts and then make them permanent
with 'git filter-branch'.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier