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Re: grafts+repack+prune = history at danger

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MWMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date
Jan 26, 2007, 09:15 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> grafts are local matter for archaeologist's convenience to glue
> two independent histories together, and not much more.

I've found them useful for doing imports from CVS. You run git-cvsimport, and then manually find the places where merges happened and record them as grafts. gitk then correctly displays the history, which is nice.

What you then do is run cg-admin-rewritehist, which magically transforms the history into one with the grafts etched in. All that remains is to translate the refs, which you can do with a sed script you got cg-admin-rewritehist to write for you.

-- [mdw]
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  1. Johannes SixtJan 25, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2007
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  4. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  5. Johannes SixtJan 26, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  7. Johannes SixtJan 26, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  9. Johannes SixtJan 26, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 26, 2007
  12. Linus TorvaldsJan 26, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsJan 27, 2007
  15. Mark WoodingJan 26, 2007

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