From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: me@felipebalbi.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fixing duplicated history
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:53:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vod0klfng.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081112222346.GA24013@frodo> (Felipe Balbi's message of "Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:23:51 +0200")
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-12 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 22:23 fixing duplicated history Felipe Balbi
2008-11-12 22:52 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-11-12 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-11-12 22:57 ` Felipe Balbi
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