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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdness
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:25:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Perhaps --full-history is needed to the rev-list call (and the recent
>> invention --simplify-merges that will hopefully appear sometime after
>> 1.6.0)?  See recent discussion of --full-history and the default merge
>> simplification between Linus and Roman Zippel.  I suspect that back when
>> the original cg-rewritehistory was written, not many people understood the
>> issues explained in that thread.
>
> Just as a historical note, --subdirectory-filter was actually not part
> of cg-admin-rewritehist.

Ok, that sounds more plausible.  Recent addition whose wrinkles have not
been ironed out.