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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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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 19, 2006, 19:00 UTC
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Yann Dirson wrote:
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> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:53:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
>> 
>> > To make my point maybe more clear: if someone really wants to make a
>> > graft permanent, wouldn't some history rewriting ... be the
>> > way to go,...
>> 
>> Yes.
> 
> So if temporary usage is a typical use for grafts, don't we want to
> protect people using them from pruning ?  I got no feedback to my
> suggestion of changing the default behaviour, even to say it was a bad
> idea :)

Perhaps prune should be conservative by default, and follow both grafts and original parents, and use appropriate options to preserve or not preserve grafts.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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Message 11 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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