Re: fixing duplicated history

[Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:53:55PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> writes:
> 
> > I have a git tree which history is completely messed up with duplicated
> > entries. By reading git man pages I saw that it might be possible to
> > delete those duplicated entries with git reflog delete, am I reading it
> > right ?
> >
> > If so, would it cause any problems to the users who already cloned the
> > original tree ? I mean, will git see it as a different history line and
> > try a merge or will it figure it's the same tree with the duplicated
> > entries removed ?
> 
> I assume that you meant "commit" by "entry", and also I assume that you
> read "git filter-branch" not "git reflog delete".  Then you are right.
> 
> And rewriting history with filter-branch will cause problems to the
> downstream users.

Yes, you got me right. Hmm, so if it'll cause problems to the downstream
users I can't do anything, unfortunately :-(

Unless they wanna clone the tree again :-p

Thanks for the info Junio.

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balbi