Re: Need to change old commit (and regenerate tree)

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: May 20, 2010, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID: <m2sk5mtecw.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilTAknKPFv5AZBrwsITPsRlVSnsuX8TDXlUTWmw@mail.gmail.com>

Antriksh Pany <antriksh.pany@gmail.com> writes:

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> Instead of (what I initially expected):
>
> A--------o--------o--------o--------o(old B)--------o--------o--------o(old C)
>
> A2--------o--------o--------o--------B--------o--------o--------C
>
>
> So what I am missing here? Aren't the new commits B~1, B~2, B~3
> identical to C~4, C~5, C~6 (respectively) in all ways so as to have
> gotten them the same SHA1 and hence appear as what I expected them to
> appear?

No, they have a different commit time, which is also part of the hash.

Andreas.

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